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Baby P doctor fights to get his job back
A GP suspended for failing to spot that Baby P was suffering horrific abuse at home has apologised for the failing, but said it would be a “completely different ball game” if he was faced with the...
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Baby P council fills Sharon Shoesmith role
Haringey council has appointed Libby Blake as its new director of children’s services.Due to start in November, Blake comes to Haringey from the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea where she was...
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Is ‘Baby P effect’ behind record care applications?
The news that care applications hit a record high last month has been picked up widely today, as has the (much-speculated about) connection with the Baby P case – that social workers are more risk...
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Protecting Our Children: The spearhead of a new movement?
Yvalia Febrer, a senior practitioner in Richmond’s children and families team, describes the reactions of her colleagues and friends to the BBC’s Protecting Our Children and explains why the...
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Sharon Shoesmith: Protecting Our Children should spark end of social work...
Sharon Shoesmith, the former Haringey children’s services director who last year won a case for unfair dismissal following her sacking in the wake of the Baby P case, hopes the recent BBC documentary...
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BBC doc explores Great Ormond Street failings
When news emerged of unsafe practices at the Great Ormond Street-run hospital where Baby Peter was seen just two days before his death, many were shocked. After all, this wasn’t a troubled local...
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Haringey review highlights complexity of responding to chronic neglect cases
The LSCB report into the chronic neglect of ten children (‘Family Z’) over seven years in Haringey makes for fairly grim, but interesting, reading. The case has been reported, but the document itself...
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Rebekah Brooks: the ‘witchhunt’ and post Baby P calls to Balls
So Rebekah Brooks, clearly a master ofdramatic irony, believes she is the subject of a “witch-hunt”, following the phone hacking revelations and recent charges. Maybe the former News of the World and...
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Shoesmith: Case of Baby P social workers crucial for future of profession
While social workers Maria Ward and Gillie Christou wait to find out if they have been granted leave to appeal against a recent employment tribunal decision, former Haringey director Sharon Shoesmith...
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Disguised compliance: Five tips for social workers
Disguised compliance happens when parents or carers don’t admit their lack of commitment to the process and work subversively to undermine it, writes Natalie Valios. When carrying out child protection...
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