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25 February 2010 marks the tenth anniversary of Victoria Climbié's death. Over the course of the last decade there have been major changes in child protection policies in the UK. But for one social worker involved in the case, life is still frozen in a state of uncertainty.

In the aftermath of Victoria's death, social worker Lisa Arthurworrey was vilified by the media and hounded out of the profession. She was put on the Protection of Children Act (PoCA) list and banned from working with children.

Review: Panorama goes on the frontline with Coventry's child protection team looking at the challenges social workers face

BBC, Monday 2 November

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Jason Owen, the lodger at Peter Connelly's home who was jailed following the child's death, has won his appeal against his indeterminate sentence, according to the BBC.

More on this story to come on the Community Care website.

    by Daniel Lombard

If social work and tabloid newspapers have always been uneasy bedfellows, the row over Deidre Sanders' continued involvement in efforts to improve the profession has reinforced the feeling that it was never going to be a match made in heaven.

The General Social Care Council's invitation to The Sun's problem page editor to its annual conference left dozens of CareSpace users outraged.

While some defended her appearance and status as a Social Work Task Force member, others took the view that the values of her employer were so fundamentally incompatible with social work's as to render the partnership unworkable, and launched an online petition calling on the GSCC to withdraw its invitation.

Amid the shock and outrage surrounding the recent sexual abuse case in Plymouth - where nursery worker Vanessa George was found to have abused children in her care - it's inevitable that questions will be asked about how we safeguard children from such abusers. If indeed we can. After all, George had passed all security checks, had no criminal record and was well-liked and trusted by parents and staff.

The emails that have emerged during the judicial review of Sharon Shoesmith's dismissal from Haringey Council are fascinating.

It's day one of the judicial review of Sharon Shoesmith's sacking from Haringey Council over the Baby Peter scandal.