This disgusting episode in the history of so-called ‘child welfare’ in the United Kingdom drags along as Haringey Council’s sacked departmental boss, Sharon Shoesmith, continues her fight for compensation over her dismissal following the  systematic abuse and murder of 17 month old Peter Connolly.

That her department and team of social workers repeatedly made error after error in their handling of this case carries no doubt whatsoever. That this poor little boy suffered abject misery while they all pissed around following their damned ‘guidelines’ carries no doubt at all. That this beautiful little boy was eventually killed in his own cot by one of the three savages that Sharon Shoesmith’s workers left him at the mercy of has become engrained in the minds and consciences of people both in Britain and around the world. It seems everyone mourned the violent death of this little innocent while those responsible have used taxpayers money in an attempt to avoid prosecution and escape accepting their responsibilities.

The general theme running through all this folks is ‘It wasn’t our fault, we did all we could’. It is a tragedy and a disgrace that those who seem so intent on destroying their own children are never matched in their efforts by those who should be twice as determined to save them. Ms Shoesmith will use a secret Ofsted Report in her efforts to gain financially out of all this but whatever rubbish was written, read, ignored and then covered up, two glaringly obvious facts remain – little Peter Connolly is dead and Sharon Shoesmith stands to make a fortune from the whole thing.