Climbie: other agencies

Articles from Community Care’s ‘Child Protection in
Focus’ series launched in light of the Victoria Climbie
inquiry:

Visiting
powers
Health visitors form a vital link in the child
protection chain, but as with professionals in other fields, that
link was missing when Victoria Climbie needed it.
Jun 20, 2002 
Who wears the
crown?
Alex Dobson investigates the tendency of staff in
health and social work to defer to the judgements of those who are
seen as higher up the professional ladder, sometimes unbalancing
child protection systems.
Jun 13, 2002
Whose
responsibility?
Paediatric hospital social workers are often
squeezed between the medical staff they work alongside and their
council counterparts.
Jun 6, 2002

Child
protection blues

Like their colleagues in social services police
officers who work in child protection know all about low status and
understaffing.
May 23, 2002 

 

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