But the fear of ‘interfearing’/putting your neck on the line all started someday when some idiot decided to sue someone for something ridiculous like ’splashing them with water from a puddle’ and an even bigger idiot let them do it. Some greedy people then thought, I know I can jump on this bandwagon too and the compensation culture began, an invidious disease, spreading like wildfire and eating up common sense and decency on the way through. Now the professionals are screwed until someone, important/influential at the top says ‘STOP IT, NOW’. Where an earth will we find a politician with the balls to do that?!

I believe that, whether they realise or not, these girls are keeping this story in the publics eye to ’start the ball rolling’ - so that we can all feel inspired to take part and help the ‘professionals’. The responsibility to keep our children safe, does not solely rely on them. For every one carer’s pair of eyes and ears, there are 10,000 of ours. As a nation, we used to stand together and I believe it is only by engaging all of us in caring for each other, that we can support ‘the Professionals’ in successfully eliminating these horrible events.

Baby P’s ‘carers’ will be sentanced soon and some people will all be at it again, “isn’t it terrible, the poor, poor boy, now let me just roll over, put my blinkers on, make a cuppa and forget all about it”. Where has the common sense, ‘fair-play’ and decency gone that has formed the backbone of our country for so long? The times when we wouldn’t just walk on by, whether it be holding a door open for someone who’s struggling, saying ‘Thank You’ or speaking up to protect someone so small that they do not have a voice.

Effort is required from everyone, whether it be taking a child into our homes to love and protect them until a ‘proper’ permanent family can be found, or a Professional having the strength to put their neck on the line and say “This is wrong and this is what we HAVE to do to change it”.

We need change for all of us, as neighbours, visitors, parents, uncles, people who breathe the same air…as human beings. We must, for once, actually put our indifference aside, work together to save the terrible lives of many, many more children, suffering from unimaginable torture as a result of those amongst us who do not live within the bounds of decent behaviour. Many are suffering right now, as you read these words. Many have been persecuted for hours, weeks, years and for some, the horror is just starting. For all of us, this is happening in our country and it seems, for quite a lot of us, it is happening right next door. No ‘miracle’ is going to happen to stop this and sadly, as proven, over and over again, ‘other people’ cannot fix it on their own.

This does not just apply to child abuse but almost everything now-a-days, we must fight this pathetic and invidious culture of ‘compensation’ and ‘claim’, freeing all ‘Professionals’ to take action without the fear of unreasonable legal action against them. Please.

If these girls save one life, ‘just’ one - won’t it all have been worth it? What if it was your grandchild, niece, brother - would you feel the same way?

Goo on you ladies! Keep up the great work.

Just like nursing which has become obsessed with paper to the detriment of patients.
But I won’t start on that one at this hour of the day!!

Calling peoples willingness to change our society for the better ‘Mourn Porn’ is frankly offensive. I would much rather be a part of the community trying to prevent abuse of children, than part of the community that pours scorn on those trying to make a difference.

Dairy, there are many people working to try and change the current practices in place. I have just received a personal reply from Baroness Delyth Morgan, the Under Secretary of State for Children, Young People and Families, stating that mandatory checks by health visitors of children at 2yrs are being reintroduced. This is a small step in the right direction, but people like Louise, Menrac and I are actively campaigning to change things for the better, to try and ensure there isn’t another Baby P.

This has nothing to do with mourning for a child that we never met - or indulging in others’ terrible grief. This is to do with helping to prevent abuse time and time again to defenceless babies and children who don’t stand a chance. The money we raise will be used on services that directly help children and also assist with the NSPCC’s relentless campaigning activities.

I am not directly involved with the song that has been re-released very kindly by Chris Rea and his record label but I do know that the NSPCC are going to benefit greatly from the proceeds which will in turn benefit so many abused and vulnerable children. I would ask that you help raise awareness of it rather than turning it into another negative story.

Finally, in reply to a comment from Diary, this particular fund has one main objective and that is to raise money for the NSPCC but we do work with and support many other campaigns that are working directly on Health Visitors/Social Worker issues as we agree this is an area just as important as raising money for children’s charities.