One thing we have learned from tonight’s Panorama broadcast regarding baby Peter is that Haringey Council are very good at protection – not child protection – but protection of the truth. Protection of facts. Protection of jobs, pensions, backsides…
Those things are vital to keep safe and under wraps because they matter to the people who benefit from them. It is amazing how councils like Haringey can close ranks and slam the doors shut in the face of the invading hordes of justice seekers when so much is at stake.
But what a pity such a well oiled machine cannot muster it’s ranks to protect the life of even one child. That’s a different matter of course. When it came to securing safety and refuge for little Peter that model of self-preservation fell apart like a house of cards. Professional individuals who hold degrees and diploma’s in formfilling, theories and therapies are unable to distinguish a bruised baby and a lying mother from a child who is messy with a piece of chocolate and a mother who just ‘forgot’ to wipe his face…
Baby Peter died because no-one bothered. As simple as that. These people went to more trouble in covering their errors than they did to ensure the baby was even wearing a clean set of clothes each visit, or was even being fed at night.
What do you say about a profession where it’s failures can mean life of death? what can you say about a profession where it’s workers – the only people who can make a difference to a vulnerable child - resign in blubbering self pity when the going gets rough instead of having the backbone to band together and demand change?
So social workers at Surrey were so exhausted and stressed at their case workloads they considered industrial action…well? this is probably the first real hint that the system can be changed by the people who are the system and yet nothing is done.
The stressed and overworked social workers have the power to implement change, no amount of political bleating by pen pushers will do this. The people who knock on the doors of the Baby Peter’s out there are the one’s who need to take the initiative. They are the last line of defence for these children – they have to start the revolution.
This is one dead horse that is definitely worth flogging.
Solution focused brief therapy.
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Inspite of all the evidences of baby P being completely neglected and tortured by the people home, the 3 monsters get a linient sentence, Jason Owen is out, Tracey connelly will be out within a year, Sharon Shoesmith gets a huge pay out….
-Jason Owen’s girlfriend has given witness
-Nevras Kemal spoke about Haringey Social Services poor conduct.
- the interview of Ms Gilmore with the fat so-called mother of Peter.
Wasnt all this proof enough?
Cant we people do something about it?
Child abuse, child pornography- why do these evils still prevail in soceity, its worse than terrorism because innocent children are the victim.
I am anxiously waiting for Dec21st 2012, hoping for the world to END….