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Baby P: If only The Sun could campaign for properly resourced children's services

by Peter Corser I wrote a piece four weeks ago about the Sun campaign against professionals in the Baby P case. It was written as a gut reaction. At the time of writing it I had not seen Sharon Shoesmith's performance so was less able to understand...

Published 10 Dec 2008 12:23 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Baby P, Haringey, Peter Corser, social work, social workers, the sun
Learning from each other: service user input into social work training

by Peter Beresford Travel broadens the mind, but it's often more difficult for service users. There's an obvious reason for many people - they don't have enough money to get about much. Some are also restricted by failures to ensure access...

Published 1 Dec 2008 11:45 AM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Baby P, Peter Beresford, service users, social work practice, students, Swedish social work, user involvement
The Death of Baby P: what do I tell my children?

by Renuka Jeyarajah-Dent, Director of Operations, Coram The tragedy of Baby P's death has quite rightly dominated the media for the last week. Newspapers are full of details of his death and images of his bruised face and more recently a photo of...

Published 28 Nov 2008 8:25 AM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Baby P, child protection, children
Social work after Baby P: the direction must change

by John Hemming, Allan Norman and Sue White There have been many reports in the last year about 'false positives', where the state intervenes when it shouldn't. What is often missed is that the issue of 'false negatives', where the...

Published 26 Nov 2008 2:54 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Allan Norman, Baby P, child protection, ics, John Hemming, Sue White
Children's Services Reform: More Command and Control?

Ed Balls' announcement that he is going to review the quality of Children's Trusts in England may be a necessary response to the tragic death of Baby P., but it is not likely to be sufficient. The evidence in the case seems to point to problems...

Published 21 Nov 2008 10:50 AM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Baby P, children, Children and Young People's Plan, children's services, chilldren's trusts, Ed Balls
Baby P: why won't they listen?

by Nushra Mansuri The death of Baby P has led to both the Prime Minister and the children's minister pledging not to allow such an awful tragedy to happen again. Many have described it as Victoria Climbié all over again; but is it? Read More...

Published 19 Nov 2008 12:25 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Baby P, child protection, Haringey, lord laming, nushra mansuri, social work
We need a return to child protection

By Liz Davies The social worker for Baby P described her role to the court as being 'there to support the family' a perspective restated by Haringey's document entitled Support offered to family of child A rather than "action taken to...

Published 13 Nov 2008 2:17 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Baby P, child protection, Haringey, liz davies, social work
Baby P campaign: The Sun at its worst

By Peter Corser I get irritated with the old complaint of "the media only notices us when we get things wrong". But I have still been taken aback with the viciousness of the campaign by The Sun this week. Read More...

Published 13 Nov 2008 2:02 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Baby P, child protection, children, media, Peter Corser, the sun

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