Arthur Labinjo-Hughes

Vic said:
PM pledges to ‘leave no stone unturned’ in review of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes’ death | Child protection | The Guardian

Looks like they'll blame councils, if this Tory MP is anything to go by. Not a mention of the massive cuts in staff because of "austerity" / tax cuts. I'd go further. If you vote for tax cuts, and cutting funding to local councils, you're not well placed to blame councils for failures of child protection.
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What a strange politically charged post on such a sad story.
 
Manc in London said:
Indeed. Where I work, we have real issues retaining children's social workers. They don't necessarily leave social work. Rather they move to back office (safeguarding coordinators, service development managers etc..). Staff don't just have to deal with very difficult case work but because of issues retaining staff, social workers are over burdened and struggle to give the time to cases that they need to.
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I managed a kids home in Tampa and each kid had a case manager (social worker).
Each case manager had 40 kids on their books. They had to see the kids at least once every 28 days and the last 2 days they would be rushing around the county seeing everyone for 5 mins.....
Some of their kids may be out of county so they would have a courtesy case manager from that county come for 5 mins to "put eyes" on the kid and sign off as all being well.
Turnover of case managers was ridiculous as well meaning new ones would end up doing 50 plus hours a week (paid for 40 hours) because they were "doing it for the kids" but that good will soon wore off when 10 hours a week unpaid became the norm.
So they leave, putting more pressure on those case managers remaining.....
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
But he isn't wrong though.... is he?
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He’s wrong to bring politics into it yes, he’s wrong to say those who voted a certain way at national level can’t criticise ground level social workers in regards to one harrowing case, yes. (Not that we necessarily should).
 
bluemoon32 said:
Dreadful story, wtf is wrong with people
www.bbc.co.uk

Star Hobson: Savannah Brockhill guilty of murder

Star Hobson's mother is also convicted of causing or allowing her death after months of abuse.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Awful story. But not an isolated incident. These services need more money to function to even an adequate level and make social work a more desirable and tolerable profession.

Because otherwise we as a society will fail more vulnerable children, and not just the most tragic cases that result in fatalities.

Not an uncommon story, mother/father or guardian gets in a relationship with a more domineering partner with unhealthy emotional state (jealousy, resentment towards the child) and emotional and physical abuse either starts or escalates.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Bouncer accused of baby murder 'threatened to bury lover', court hears

Pub bouncer Savannah Brockhill, 28, allegedly threatened her lover Frankie Smith, 20, after a man in a pub had spoken to Smith. Both women are on trial accused murdering Smith's daughter
www.dailymail.co.uk
 
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