Poor Tiffany

How sad, a 25 day old baby dies in Sherwood, Tunbridge Wells.

The father is convicted of her manslaughter. Her mother is bereft at the loss of her child. Tiffany died the first time her mother had left her.

It is tragic. That KCC Social Services had received a warning about Tiffany's father which was not recorded adds to the sense of tragedy. It is right that KCC has acknowledged that the social worker who received the information made a mistake.

However the next stage, had the information been logged, would have been a 'multi-agency case review'. Would the deliberations of that review have saved Tiffany? We shall never know, but in my opinion we should not be harsh in our judgement of KCC.

Remember: the killer was Tiffany's father. The victims are Tiffany and her mother.