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Camden social services department has seen a second senior figure leave just weeks after the shock resignation of director Jane Held.

Penny Abraham, the council's executive member for social services and health, is expected to leave the council's cabinet but will stay on as a councillor.

Meanwhile, further speculation over the departure of Held in December (news, page 6, 22 January) has centred on her work away from the borough. Social workers were told by managers that one of the reasons for her exit was that she had "taken her eye off the ball at home due to activities outside".


Andrew Cozens, president of the Association of Directors of Social Services, said he had been told by both Held and Gibb that Held's work on the green paper as the association's co-chairperson of its children's and families committee had not been a factor.