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

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

May 23, 2002