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Baby P death 'a wake-up call' on child protection

11.08.09
Peter Connelly's horrific death was a 'wake-up call' for people to raise concerns about children they feared were being abused, campaigners said... more

Countdown to Baby P tragedy

12.05.09
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Borough beset by scandals

01.05.09
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Haringey is blamed for failure to protect yet another at-risk victim

01.05.09
Haringey council was embroiled in another child protection scandal as details of the girl’s ordeal emerged... more

Third of child case reviews are inadequate say inspectors

17.03.09
Social workers are failing to learn the lessons from cases in which a child is killed by suspected abuse, inspectors warned... more

The real priorities of child protection

12.03.09
There will inevitably be an element of déjà vu about today's report by Lord Laming into child protection services in England... more

Frontline training for all directors

12.03.09
All child protection directors will be sent for compulsory retraining in the wake of the Baby P scandal, ministers have announced... more

No payoff for Baby P boss

06.01.09
WHEN Sharon Shoesmith was ordered out of her job as head of children's services in the borough where Baby P died, the Children's Secretary Ed Balls said: "This kind of failure should not be rewarded with compensation or payoffs."... more

Baby P: failings that must be fixed

02.12.08
The case of Baby P turns out to have a significance far beyond the individual tragedy of the child’s violent death at the hands of his mother, her boyfriend and her lodger, and raises troubling questions about the quality of child protection in this country... more

Taking the blame: the two Haringey councillors who have quit over toddler’s death

01.12.08
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The rotten borough of Haringey?

21.11.08
The dreadful death of Baby P has brought the wrath of the nation down on one London locality, already notorious for Victoria Climbie. But a leading expert says there are hundreds of other children across London who could suffer the same tragic fate... more

Ofsted is damning on council failures

19.11.08
Vulnerable children are being left to die like Baby P because councils are failing to stop abuse, inspectors warn... more

Council leader 'must quit so Haringey can move on'

19.11.08
The leader of Haringey council came under renewed pressure to resign after issuing a belated apology over the death of Baby P... more

Gt Ormond St warning on child protection

18.11.08
Health bosses admitted concerns over the Haringey hospital that failed to spot Baby P's broken back in the months before the toddler was killed... more

Mr Brown's case for tax cuts

14.11.08
The meeting this weekend in New York of the world's 20 largest economies comes as the financial crisis is curdling into something even more serious — a full-blown international recession... more

115 families complained about child services after Climbié

14.11.08
Social workers in Haringey have been the subject of 115 complaints to the local government watchdog in the years since the death of Victoria Climbié... more

Ticking boxes and filling in forms is just no way to be a social worker

13.11.08
A former Haringey social worker says the lessons of Victoria Climbie have been submerged by Government-imposed bureaucracy and cash cuts... more

The lesson of Baby P - never leave a child at risk

13.11.08
The child of some friends of mine, a toddler at the time, fell off the bed at home a few years ago... more

We've had a raft of excuses and no apology

12.11.08
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Experts to investigate failures over Baby P

12.11.08
A government hit-squad of inspectors is set to be sent into Haringey to investigate the death of Baby P... more

Boy left to die just like Victoria Climbie

11.11.08
A toddler was battered to death after blunders by doctors, social workers and police allowed the abuse to go unchecked for months... more

Climbié reforms fail to stop new tragedy

11.11.08
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Written warnings but no sackings over boy’s death

11.11.08
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Comment: Fatal mistakes

17.07.08
The case of Vivian Gamor, the paranoid schizophrenic who murdered her two children in Hackney last year, offers a deeply disturbing insight into the operation of the borough's social services... more

Nurse who helps protect children is made a dame

24.06.08
A London nurse who was instrumental in improving child protection after the murder of Victoria Climbié has been made a Dame... more

Climbié social worker 'won't go back to job'

16.06.08
A social worker sacked after the death of Victoria Climbié says she will not work in child protection again, despite winning a tribunal hearing... more

I don't dream about murdered Victoria ... I live with her every day, says social worker who became scapegoat

14.06.08
Eight years after Victoria Climbié's murder, the social worker who was made a scapegoat tells of her guilt, her grief and the little girl she can never leave behind.... more

Ban on Climbié social worker is overturned

04.06.08
The social worker at the centre of the Victoria Climbié scandal has been given permission to work with vulnerable children again... more

Climbie's mother feels betrayed by child deaths

28.05.08
The mother of Victoria Climbie today said lessons over the death of her daughter had not been learned... more

At last, some good news about children

17.04.08
I recently wrote in this paper about Melissa,a young girl I mentor through FUN, an organisation in north London that matches adult volunteers with emotionally vulnerable kids. The response to the piece was staggering - hundreds of emails arrived, some wanting to know more, others sharing good or bad stories... more

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