Regrest - Until The Next Time

[youngmafbog]

Beggars belief

http://news.sky.com/story/1152928/haringey-regret-over-new-child-abuse-case

[youngmafbog]

Regret even

Anyone else having problems with AB not listing News in descending Chronological order ?

[Gromit]

Easy to blame the council.

But really ot is the parents fault.

And as well as the council, the Police, Medical Services, schools and neighbours coyld usually have helped avoid tragedies, but also do nothing.

[TWR]

Staff need to be trained in observation.

Staff need to take heed of Warning bells ( Small talk from Neighbours)

Staff need to observe the house conditions.

Staff need to observe the reaction of the child when spoken to by the Parents.

[Sqad]

To be fair Gromit. the medics expressed "grave concern" on two occasions, but the authorities "investigated" and found no action was needed.

[LazyGun]

There has to have been some kind of cultural shift within Social Services, judging from some of the commentary in that article.

Despite reservations from Doctors who had examined the child, despite his own testimony and that of his sibling, Social Services, it would seem, chose to ignore this evidence in favour of the mothers story that the child was clumsy and "ran into things".

And, referring back to other, previous high profile cases discussed here, Social Services in other cases, like Baby P and the Climbie case, appear to have ignored the evidence of multiple bruises or injuries as evidence of abuse in favour of believing the lies from the mother of boisterous or clumsy behaviour by the child.

One cannot help but think that Social Services are so wedded to the idea that it is better to "keep a family" together that nothing short of a dead body will convince them otherwise...

[Gromit]

// Despite a paediatrician expressing "strong concern" he was being beaten, police found no cause for concern at the house and stopped investigating. //

Yes sqad. In this instance the medics alerted the Police who were not concerned, so the local authorities could do nothing.

In the Baby P case, the GP was useless.

[Sqad]

LazyGun.....good post........

Also have you seen and experienced first hand these high rise flats, lifts don't work, graffiti over the walls, groups of "layabouts" with baseball hats looking intimidating...........me?.......if i worked for Social Services, I wouldn't go near the place.

[LazyGun]

I understand that for some of the home visits Social Services often request the accompaniment of a police officer because some of the areas and some of the families involved are intimidating.

I am sure I read somewhere that there was a feeling that a better balance between women and men were employed within the field, since it is Social Services is predominantly staffed with women and it was felt that men might be less easily intimidated - But having seen some of those places, I am not so sure that would be a cure. I think most men might be intimidated too :)