An investigation has been launched after claims secret documents were found at a Dundee dump.
Confidential minutes of a child protection review carried out in Aberdeen were among the papers reportedly found “blowing about” at a council waste site in Dundee.
Aberdeen City Council has launched an inquiry into the incident, which it is treating “very seriously”.
But questions still remain over how the confidential social work documents could end up nearly 70 miles away in a tip in Dundee.
A spokesman for Aberdeen City Council declined to speculate on what had happened.
He said: “Aberdeen City Council takes any breach of confidentiality very seriously and we are investigating this matter.”
The child protection documents marked “file copy” include minutes of a review of a woman’s pregnancy from two years ago.
Such reviews include confidential updates on a child’s condition as well as private information on the parents.
Ken Lynn, convener of social work and health at Dundee City Council, said: “Something’s gone very wrong with their processes up in Aberdeen.”
Councillor Len Ironside, convener of Aberdeen City Council’s social care and wellbeing committee, said: “We’ll be holding an investigation to find out how these papers got down there.
“It’s a matter of concern. These things do happen occasionally but I’m not aware of it happening in Aberdeen City Council.”