29/09/2014

A BBC Inside Out investigation shows that a third of children's social work departments in the east have more than 20% of posts sitting vacant with over half seeing an increase in vacancies over the past four years. We spend four days with Peterborough City Council to examine how the department has turned itself around from two bad Ofsteds and the Tyler Wheelan case in 2011 to the recent success of the Peterborough sex-ring trials. Yet it has one of the highest vacancy levels in the region with a quarter of permanent posts sitting empty. We see first-hand the problems social workers face, find out how the recruitment drive is going and ask who really wants to be a social worker?

And David Whiteley visits the City of Ale festival, in search of the best beer in the land. The contest is between Norwich and York, with both cities claiming to be home to the top beer in the country.