The head of children's services overseeing murdered baby Preston Davey’s fostering arrangements received a £23,000 golden goodbye, it has emerged.There were at least eight chances to save the 13-month-old, including a string of instances when social workers could have intervened.Searching questions are now being asked of Oldham Council - responsible for Preston’s adoption by ‘evil’ Jamie Varley and John McGowan-Fazakerley - and Blackpool Victoria Hospital, where Preston was admitted three times including with a broken elbow.Gerard Jones, 68, who ended his tenure as Oldham Council’s managing director of children’s services in October 2024 after five years, said he felt 'blessed to end my time in Oldham on such a high'.Just 15 months earlier on July 27, 2023, Preston was sexually abused and murdered by secondary school head of year Jamie Varley, 37, after suffering ‘a litany of psychological and sexual ill-treatment’.Varley’s sales executive boyfriend John McGowan-Fazakerley, 32, turned a blind eye and even joined in with an incident of sexual abuse.Oldham Council oversaw Preston’s care because his mother, convicted murderer Sarah Davey, 42, is from the town.Varley and McGowan-Fazakerley were put forward as adoptive parents via agency Adoption Now, owned jointly by local councils in the North West, after two years of intensive preparation. Preston was placed with them at the end of March 2023.