Baby P Is For Baby Porn
Fiona Phillips, writes a note to the judge and jury:
As we look at the prominent pictures of the workers involved in the Baby P case, we all need to remember that they didn’t kill the tragic toddler.
Phillips, the former GMTV presenter, was once invited to join Gordon Brown’s Government. Surely politics has not part in this heinous crime.
Here’s Heffer again:
It would be facile to say that the Labour Government killed Baby P. But it certainly created the circumstances in which he could be killed.
And as the Independent front page puts it:
“Baby P – a picture of innocence amid a political storm.”
The system failed Baby P:
During the short life and slow, brutal death of Baby P, staff at Haringey’s social services department who had responsibility for protecting him were twice commended for the quality of the service they provided.
In two reports, published shortly before the abuse of Baby P began in November 2006 and three months after he was found dead in his blood-spattered cot in August 2007, inspectors from Ofsted praised the child protection service provided by Haringey and awarded the department three stars, the top accolade. When a whistleblower tried to alert the inspectorate and the Government to inadequacies in the handling of child abuse cases by the council, her warnings were dismissed.
Was bureaucracy complicit in the death of Baby P? A former Haringey social worker called Nevres Kemal turned whistleblower, sending missives to the Government warning of failings in the system.
Ms Kemal’s letter to Patricia Hewitt, then Secretary of State at the Department of Health, was forwarded to the Department for Children, Schools and Families, which had taken over responsibility for children’s services. It, in turn, passed it to the Commission for Social Care Inspection, whose role as regulator of child protection services ended in April 2007 and was taken over by Ofsted. Details of the complaint remain shrouded in secrecy; Ms Kemal is subject to an injunction preventing her from speaking publicly.
Four Government departments. Government is the country’s big growth industry:
“Haringey department was unable to prevent the abuse of Baby P in late 2006 and through 2007, despite the efforts of social workers, doctors, health visitors and police charged with protecting him who saw the family on 60 occasions over eight months.”
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