Twice police used emergency powers, in July 2009 and October 2010, taking the child from her mother, but Kaiya was returned with 'undue haste', the report said.Gosh! That sounds awfully familiar, doesn't it? It's not new. Far from it.
And no doubt we can expect more hand-wringing from the social worklers in days to come.
Parents, nursery staff and even housing association workmen at her flat repeatedly reported concerns but despite a 'Child Protection Plan', conferences and strategy meetings there was a 'fairly chaotic' approach to case planning, the report said.Shades of Victoria Climbie all over again! What did I say about that at the time? Ah, yes!
"People understand the failings all too well. It was people, after all, not the so-called 'experts', that raised the alarm. People like her childminder, Priscilla Cameron, and the taxi driver Salman Pinarbasi, who could see with their untrained eyes what the 'experts' apparantly could not, for all their training. If the system was flawed, it was because it was owned and operated by utter incompetents like Lisa Arthurworrey with her politically-correct training, and not by people like Ms Cameron and Mr Pinarbasi, with their common sense and humanity."Deja vu all over again..
The report concluded Kaiya's death 'could not have been predicted'.Do they keep typing that phrase anew for each case, or do you suppose they've had a stamp made up for it, to save time?
Ian Rush, chairman of Manchester Safeguarding Children Board, said: 'Whilst the report finds that the tragic death of this little girl could not have been predicted by any of the agencies working with the family, the recommendations make it clear that agencies could and should have done some things differently.
'This was a complex case, made all the more so by the mother's mental health needs, and presenting behaviour.
'This led to an over-emphasis by agencies on dealing with the mother and her needs, rather than focusing on the child and ensuring her needs were met.'Wasn't the lengthy and expensive Victoria Climbie enquiry supposed to resolve that very thing?
Why, yes. Yes, it was.
That was all a big waste of money then, wasn't it?
... 'Child Protection Plan', conferences and strategy meetings...
ReplyDeleteYou can just picture them can't you?
Plush carpets, boardroom tables, executive chairs, coffee and biscuits, reports collated, printed and bound within the appropriate coloured covers, more reports, statements read out, break for lunch...
Meanwhile, away from the cosseted bubble of the over paid talking shops and paper shufflers, stuff is happening, bad stuff.
Community Care Worker Baldrick: Have you finished that Risk Assessment thingy, Sir?
ReplyDeleteDirector General of Community Care: Sorry Baldrick. Such things waste my invaluable time and in any event there's no money in guesswork unless you happen to be a gypsy. Come to think of it - are you a gypsy, Baldrick?
Community Care Worker Baldrick:
No Sir. But not to worry about the thingy. The only important thing is that we had this meeting about it.
I'm there are...once again....lessons to be learned...words of advice....training need....diversity....vibrancy etc etc etc etc etc etc etc judge led enquiry or is that a judicial Inquiry? Fuck knows and who cares eh?
ReplyDeleteAnd once again an innocent suffers.Has anyone taken responsibility? Anyone now clearing their desk before being escorted from the premises? These things will continue to happen until those officials responsible face real retribution.
ReplyDeleteAhuh... they moved on from "could not have been prevented" to " could not have been predicted" in less time that it takes to say "neurolinguistic programming".
ReplyDeleteWe can't currently expect Them to be mind-readers now, can we, BUT... now they've pointed out precisely where the real problem is... will we now demand that they are ? Can't help but suspect that They really hope so.
There's something about the blink-and-you-just-might-miss-it change...in the CP sense of the word "change"... of that one single word that just gives me the frickin' creeps.
Never mind. Social workers can always make up for their failures by snatching children from innocent families, as Christopher Booker so often relates in his Telegraph column. High adoption rates make them look like the good guys.
ReplyDelete"You can just picture them can't you?"
ReplyDeleteSadly yes.
"Has anyone taken responsibility? Anyone now clearing their desk before being escorted from the premises?"
What do you think?
"There's something about the blink-and-you-just-might-miss-it change...in the CP sense of the word "change"... of that one single word that just gives me the frickin' creeps."
Me too...
"Never mind. Social workers can always make up for their failures by snatching children from innocent families, as Christopher Booker so often relates in his Telegraph column."
I wonder just what the success rate of those adoptions is?
Funny how "Think of the cheeeeeeelderen" goes out of the window for progressives when faced with, you know, a real child
ReplyDeleteIt's a pity the child's mother didn't challenge the social workers motives. They'd have taken the kid in care in two shakes of a damage limitation co-ordinator's head.
ReplyDeleteJulia - Not high. Perhaps lower still with gay and lesbian adoptions.
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