TWO councillors have called for an urgent inquiry into allegations that a council sent a vulnerable 13-year-old boy to stay with his sex offender father in the North-East.

The boy spent two weeks with the man in his Gateshead flat, despite social services knowing he was a Schedule 1 paedophile who sexually assaulted a two-year-old child.

The youngster and his 17-year-old brother were given train tickets by Doncaster Council social services department to visit their father. The move was against the wishes of the boy's mother, who says she was horrified when she learned what had happened.

The boy, himself a victim of serious sexual abuse by another man when aged 11, was taken into social services care after his disabled mother could no longer look after him.

Councillors Karen Page and Margaret Pinkney, of Doncaster Council, have taken evidence to the Social Services Inspectorate, part of the Department of Health, and demanded an investigation.

Coun Page said: "We have got no choice. We cannot let things like this happen. This boy should never have been sent up there. He was sent back to a Schedule 1 offender, they (social services) knew this. We want to make sure that it will never ever happen again."

A Doncaster Council spokes-man said no official complaint had been made to the council but if it was made the matter would be investigated.