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Originally Posted by bobnot
Dumb sensationalist thread title its a horrible thing to have happened absolutely sickening but you lay the blame at the door of social services?!?! really? get a bloody grip man.
Social services do an amazing job they stop thousands of things like this happening every year but when something like this happens you post they "fail again" how often do you hear about the thousands of times they have succesfully stepped in and potentially saved a childs life? never and would you make a thread praising them for it? no would you hell.
A sense of perspective is whats needed Angus if you dont have one i hear this rag is read by such people 
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Not quite sure why you have adopted such an aggressive stance - but I'm getting increasingly used to it for having the audacity to hold an opposite opinion to some on here.
Firstly, I am not a man, and am puzzled as to why you would think someone's avatar should reflect their gender
Secondly, I found the link to the paper on the BBC site, so kindly don't make assumptions about my paper of choice. I could just as easily stereotype some of the morons on here as Guardian readers
Thirdly, there is absolutely zero excuse in this particular case for the Social Services concerned to have allowed this baby to die. These so called "professionals" undergo years of training and should be able to detect such glaring and obvious danger signs.
Fourthly, this is not an isolated case, and lessons don't seem to have been learned from previous tragic incidents.
Daily Telegraph
Timeline of social services failures: from Victoria Climbie to Baby P
Here is a timeline of children who died after failures by social services.
Victoria Climbie, whose death led to the creation of the database Photo: PA8:00AM GMT 26 Feb 2010
Victoria Climbie died Feb 2000
Eight-year-old girl starves to death after prolonged abuse at hands of guardians in London. Social workers, police and NHS had failed to raise alarm.
Outcome: Lord Laming report advises complete overhaul of child protection policies. Most of his 108 recommendations become law in 2004 Children Act.
David Stocker died August 2001
Nine-year-old boy from Romford, Essex killed by overdose of salt fed him by mother, who is jailed for five years. Care workers had suspected she planned to do him harm.
Outcome: Independent review catalogues more than 25 failings by social services, police and Great Ormond Street hospital.
Trae-Bleu Layne died October 2006
Three-year-old girl from Reading dies after overdosing on mother's methadone.
Outcome: Report finds no action taken to remove child from home despite domestic violence reports and warnings from neighbours. Reading council pledges to improve systems.
Baby P (Peter Connelly) died August 2007
Endures agonising death in home shared by mother, her boyfriend and lodger in Haringey, north London. The 17-month-old suffers 50 injuries including broken back, allegedly missed by doctor.
Outcome: Head of children's services at Haringey council and four colleagues sacked. Series of damning inquiries reveal 60 missed opportunities to save Baby P's life. New report by Lord Laming concludes his Climbie reforms not widely implemented.
Demi Leigh Mahon died July 2008
Two year-old girl beaten to death by teenage babysitter in Manchester, after social services ignore warnings about unreliability of drug-addict mother.
Outcome: Serious case review finds concerns of relatives and neighbours not followed up properly.
No-one disputes that Social Services in general provide a useful and life saving service, but there is absolutely NO excuse for any of these murdered children to have been left in the care of the people who eventually killed them. If you are suggesting that the occasional "mistake" (a child's death!) is just collateral damage, I'm afraid I find that totally unacceptable, and I have no need to apologise to you or anyone else for holding that opinion.