Following yesterday's independent report into events in Haringay's child protection policy,Baby P returns to the headlines in many of the papers this morning.

Devastating report reveals Baby P failings says the Guardian

The head of children's services in the London borough where Baby P died after months of persistent injury and neglect was dismissed from her post yesterday as the government responded to a damning report into the council's failings.
On a day which saw two senior figures on Haringey council resign within hours of the report hitting ministers' desks, Ed Balls, the children's secretary, removed Sharon Shoesmith from control of the borough's children's department. He described the findings of the review as "devastating

The Times reports that

Social workers will face annual spot checks as part of sweeping changes to children’s care after the tragedy

Thousands more children at risk says the Independent

Thousands of Britain's most vulnerable children are at risk because councils are failing to move swiftly enough to protect them from abuse, it emerged last night.
Dozens of local authorities are taking inadequate action to avoid repetition of serious abuse cases, warned the head of the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted).

It's not enough says the Sun

BOSSES finally took action against six council bunglers in the Baby P tragedy last night, but stopped short of firing them — and all are still on full pay.
Shamed Sharon Shoesmith was suspended after a report on the scandal was handed to Children’s Secretary Ed Balls.
Yet she continues to receive the £110,000 salary paid to her as head of children’s services in Haringey, North London.

The Telegraph leads with Cabinet in secret meeting over raid on Tory

The Independent says that

The Home Office mole who leaked secret papers to the Tory MP Damian Green broke cover yesterday to insist that he was acting in the public interest and to accuse police of a massive overreaction.
Christopher Galley admitted being in regular contact with the shadow Immigration minister, whose arrest has provoked a constitutional uproar over the freedom of MPs

The Guardian reports that

Galley's appearance came as Ken Jones, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, defended the Metropolitan police action in arresting Green, a shadow Home Office spokesman, saying that no person, regardless of their station, should be given the opportunity to influence an inquiry in their favour.
David Cameron is expected to ask two Conservative heavyweights, Ken Clarke and Michael Howard, to lead his party's assault on Gordon Brown and the Commons Speaker over Green's arrest when MPs return to Westminster tomorrow

According to the Mail

Labour was accused of plotting a political 'stitch up' with the Speaker as the furore over the arrest of Tory MP Damian Green raged on.
Plans for a secret ministerial meeting were revealed when an email from Harriet Harman, the leader of the Commons, fell into Tory hands.

There is much coverage of Hillary Clinton being confirmed as Secretary of State

President-Elect Barack Obama has declared that the United States should maintain the "strongest military on the planet", while aiming to restore his country's global moral leadership.

says the Telegraph

The Guardian reports that

A naive and irresponsible politician, prone to distorting the facts, awarded a crucial role in his cabinet yesterday to a deeply flawed has-been who is neither honest nor trustworthy - or so you might have imagined had you relied on the character judgments that each had previously made of the other.
But all that nastiness belonged to another, long-vanished era, the prehistoric period geologists refer to as "last spring". Barack Obama's much-anticipated announcement that Hillary Clinton would be his secretary of state, by contrast, dwelt almost exclusively on the future. Which left only a few hundred lingering questions.

The Mail leads with

How NHS betrayed Alzheimer's patients

The scandal of widespread cutbacks in NHS care affecting thousands of Alzheimer's patients is exposed today.
Almost one in three health trusts admits axing vital services such as district nurses and day centres, leaving desperate families to struggle alone.
Fewer than half are running clinics to spot early signs of Alzheimer's despite soaring numbers of patients.

12 years to halve UK CO2 says the Independent

Britain should adopt the world's toughest climate change target and slash nearly half of its greenhouse gas emissions in the next 12 years, the Government's new climate advisory committee said yesterday in its first report.
Emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases causing global warming should be cut by 42 per cent on 1990 levels by 2020, as long as there is a new global climate deal in a UN meeting in Copenhagen a year from now, said the Committee on Climate Change

Another day of bad economic news

Hundreds of job losses have been announced by Aston Martin and HSBC, as the gloom engulfing the banking and motor industries hit some of its highest profile companies.

reports the Telegraph adding that

Nearly a third of Aston Martin's workforce is set to be laid off as the car maker became the latest victim of the global economic crisis.
HSBC, which is making 500 staff redundant across the UK, is the latest bank to announce cutbacks

Shoppers paying less at checkout as VAT is cut says the Guardian

Many shoppers found yesterday that the price at the till was less than the one on the label, as the cut in VAT came into effect.
Alistair Darling announced last week that standard value added tax would be cut from 17.5% to 15% for 13 months, to raise consumer confidence. The reduction would cost the government £12.5bn in lost revenue and retailers £200m as they reprice items.

The Express meanwhile believes there is a secret plot to join the Euro

MINISTERS are secretly plotting to scrap the pound and force Britain into adopting the euro, the top bureaucrat in Brussels revealed yesterday.
The President of the European Commission admitted holding talks with “the people who matter in Britain” about the country joining the European single currency.
He claimed senior figures in the Government felt that the move could prevent a sterling crisis and help to ease the effects of recession.

The Independent reports that

The world's stock markets suffered another round of falls yesterday as the body regarded as the arbiter of US recessions said the American economy's 73-month economic expansion ended in December 2007.
The news came as surveys of business confidence across continents displayed further catastrophic declines. The US economy decreased at an annualised rate of 0.5 per cent in the third quarter of 2008, having grown by an annualised 2.8 per cent in the second quarter

The Guardian claims that

The government will announce further stringent welfare reforms today which would force lone parents with children aged one or more to prepare themselves for work or face benefit sanctions.
The proposals, likely to provoke a confrontation in tomorrow's Queen's speech, represent a further extension of the government's responsibilities agenda. Ministers already faced a backlash over aspects of the planned welfare reform bill as lobbyists argued plans to tighten sanctions and give private contractors a bigger role in job placement, should be shelved in view of the recession.

The news from India is relegated to the inside pages but there is still much coverage

Western governments are trying to prevent a breakdown in relations between Asia's two nuclear powers after India accused Pakistan of allowing terrorists to mount the attacks on Mumbai

says the Telegraph

The Guardian reports that

Condoleezza Rice yesterday called on full Pakistani cooperation with the investigation into the Mumbai attacks, saying they represented a "critical moment" in the new civilian government's efforts to wrest control of Pakistan's security services.
The outgoing US secretary of state said she did not want to "jump to conclusions", but made it clear during a visit to London yesterday that she expected Islamabad would have to answer for the attacks which left nearly 200 people dead last week.

Meanwhile the Sun reports that

THE blood and the bodies had gone. But the bullet holes and fear remained as Mumbai stirred anxiously from its terrorist nightmare yesterday.
Travellers once more bustled around Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station just five days after it ran red with the blood of dozens of innocents.
And the iconic Leopold Cafe bar — where eight died in a hail of bullets and grenade shrapnel — was packed with customers bravely refusing to be daunted by the outrage, feared to have claimed 172 lives.

The Mirror reports on the new jackets that those doing community service have to wear

A group of workers chopping down weeds around a quiet playing field wouldn’t normally attract much attention.
But this isn’t any group of workers.
As of yesterday, offenders carrying out community service in your area now have to wear a “vest of shame” – a high-visibility jacket emblazoned with the words “community payback”.
On the scheme’s first day the Mirror joined a group of offenders clearing up weeds and shrubs.
The vests – orange to differentiate them from the yellow outfits of construction or council workers – will soon become a common sight as convicts wear them while doing manual labour on Britain’s streets.

The Mail reports on more problems for the BBC

Days after the BBC promised to clean up its act following the Andrew Sachs debacle, it has been forced into a fresh apology over lewd behaviour.
Doctor Who actor John Barrowman exposed himself during a live broadcast at 8.15pm on Sunday.
Although the programme was on Radio 1, pictures were also relayed to online listeners via a webcam.

Finally many of the papers report from Santa's Grotty

KIDS were left in tears after parents spent up to £30 each to visit this bleak, muddy Santa’s grotto.
Visitors were promised an entrancing nativity scene, a magical tunnel of light and a spectacular ice rink.
But hundreds of punters found a few strings of fairy lights which were switched off, a sprinkling of fake snow – and no rink as the generator was broken.

reports the Sun

The Mail adds that

Last night, more than 250 families who visited the event at Matchams Leisure Park on the Hampshire/Dorset border were venting their fury on the Facebook social networking website.
They renamed it 'crapland' and 'winter blunderland'.
Some have also contacted the RSPCA to report concerns about the animals.