Saturday 10 April 2010

Another child dies in squalor

In Nottinghamshire an 8 year old child hangs herself accidentally. She lived in squalor and her parents have been imprisoned for neglect. The child was known to social services and there is to be another inquiry as to what went wrong.

This is the latest in a long list of desperately sad cases of children dying through the failure by statutory services to take appropriate action. I don't blame front line workers, the fault is in the system. Is there too much multi-agency working which dilutes responsibility and takes up an enormous amount of time?

I don't know what the answers are. What I do know is that all the reports from across the country in to previous failings did not prevent the death of a poor girl who had led a miserable life.

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