The Climbie inquiry heard that during the three-months Ealing dealt with Kouao and Victoria social services had never completed an assessment of the child's individual needs, made a home visit, or found out why she was not placed in a school.
Giving evidence, Sarah Stollard, team manager of the referral and assessment team, said at the time of Climbie's case they had a backlog of 200 cases and Victoria was not considered a priority. Stollard added: "She she did not present as a child that other agencies were concerned about. It was an accommodation issue and a finance issue. We did not go looking for child protection issues."
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