How on earth did the the authorities let this happen?

Matblack · 18-11-2008, 12:29

I heard a woman on the news the other day say that the whole of Haringay social services team should step down hmmmmm, what are the consiquences of that then?

I can understand the emotion involved in this but this is reality, child protection is not a routine problem with a routine solution, if a childs life is broken the diagnosis is always unique, you can't pull the motherboard out and slap in a new one, you have to arrive at a unique tailored solution for the case. In this case 90% of the people involved seem to have followed the new rules since the Climbier case BUT a number of decisions were made which weren't right, they weren't universially wrong but in this case they weren't quite right and a child dies.

Before we lay blame lets think about the number of abuse cases that the new rules have prevented, its a sad fact that it some point something or someone is going to slip through, in this case its a little boy and NO, ITS NOT ACCCEPTABLE but it IS ENVEVITABLE. Especially when you have a number of people surounding the child (family and friends) who have deviberately mislead the authorities.

Being a social worker is HARD it is one of the emotionally hardest worst paid roles with a requirement for a higher education qualification and with this come the hatred, dislike and distrust of just about every other agency and parent around. If you think you can do it better then have a crack at it, first you will need to get a Social Work degree, then you will almost certainly need to take a massive paycut and a massive work load increase, go through huge amounts of emotional anguish, take crying children from crying mothers and fathers. If you screw up and remove a child who isn't in an abusive situation you'll most likely have to leave your job and move because it will be in the papers, if you don't take them and they are you'll most likely have to leave your job and move because it will be in the papers.

This child should never have died but people need to level their hatred in two directions, the professionals who made mistakes should be scrutinised but remember they didn't deliberately break this child's back.

I'm sorry if this isn't the party line but its hard being in a job where you have to be responsible for these things, its part of my job and EVERY time I come close to a CP case I wonder if I did the right thing and I'm not even close to the role of a social worker but I could very well be one of the professionals who missed something which would have led to the prevention of a death and its not an easy thing to do.

MB

18-11-2008, 12:29	#20
Matblack Baby Bore Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Svalbard Posts: 9,770	I heard a woman on the news the other day say that the whole of Haringay social services team should step down hmmmmm, what are the consiquences of that then? I can understand the emotion involved in this but this is reality, child protection is not a routine problem with a routine solution, if a childs life is broken the diagnosis is always unique, you can't pull the motherboard out and slap in a new one, you have to arrive at a unique tailored solution for the case. In this case 90% of the people involved seem to have followed the new rules since the Climbier case BUT a number of decisions were made which weren't right, they weren't universially wrong but in this case they weren't quite right and a child dies. Before we lay blame lets think about the number of abuse cases that the new rules have prevented, its a sad fact that it some point something or someone is going to slip through, in this case its a little boy and NO, ITS NOT ACCCEPTABLE but it IS ENVEVITABLE. Especially when you have a number of people surounding the child (family and friends) who have deviberately mislead the authorities. Being a social worker is HARD it is one of the emotionally hardest worst paid roles with a requirement for a higher education qualification and with this come the hatred, dislike and distrust of just about every other agency and parent around. If you think you can do it better then have a crack at it, first you will need to get a Social Work degree, then you will almost certainly need to take a massive paycut and a massive work load increase, go through huge amounts of emotional anguish, take crying children from crying mothers and fathers. If you screw up and remove a child who isn't in an abusive situation you'll most likely have to leave your job and move because it will be in the papers, if you don't take them and they are you'll most likely have to leave your job and move because it will be in the papers. This child should never have died but people need to level their hatred in two directions, the professionals who made mistakes should be scrutinised but remember they didn't deliberately break this child's back. I'm sorry if this isn't the party line but its hard being in a job where you have to be responsible for these things, its part of my job and EVERY time I come close to a CP case I wonder if I did the right thing and I'm not even close to the role of a social worker but I could very well be one of the professionals who missed something which would have led to the prevention of a death and its not an easy thing to do. MB __________________ "we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two"