So I've just finished watching Panaramas Baby P The Whole Truth and got a bit emotional!
I just can't believe how many opportunities there were to save Peter, why did his Grandma not let authorities know about Stephen Barker, why did police not pursue their decision to remove Peter and why did Sue Gilmour not pick up on the fact of a man living in the house in her video interview with Tracey Connelly. There are so many unanswered questions.
I also thought I'd never say this but I actually agreed with David Cameron- social services receive £100million a year and yet there are still children dying. Authorities are failing these children and unfortunately it is normally social services that receive the blame, however is it just social services or is it multi agency neglection that is the cause.
Andrew Turnell (expert in Sweden) believed that social services use of Solution Focused Therapy could have caused them to overlook Peters wellbeing. Solution Focused Therapy focuses to much on the parent and the future they wish to have, Andrew Turnell suggests that if used correctly then Solution Focused Therapy can also take into consideration the child but unfortunately Haringey authorities did not successfully use SFT. This is a good link as it will take you to google books where there is a good explanation of SFT in Chapter 7.
One of the main things I've been appalled by the last couple of weeks is finding out that Baby P died only streets away from where Victoria Climbie died, had the authorities not learnt from previous mistakes.
This article links to the video as it is apart how Baby P was let down by authorities http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11621391.
Going to carry on looking for more for the court case now TTFN x
hard to pick a blogger of the term but yours must be up there ! great selection of items and some reflection on what you have read. Thought provoking and emotional -a great way to learn . thanks x x
ReplyDeleteThanks Lin x
ReplyDelete100 million is that for the whole UK?
ReplyDeleteWith a population of 65 million that only gives less than 2 pounds per person per year! You cant get a lot for 2 pounds. After doing some digging within social services I found out that it can cost between 500 and 2000 pounds a week to keep a child in foster care.
In December 2011 in England alone there were 65520 children in care, even if the whole 100million pound budget was spend on these children it would only give them 1500pounds a year, however that amount of money would only actually look after the child for around a month!
Foster care is only one area of social services there is so many other areas that the money is spent so although 100 million pounds sounds like a considerable amount of money really its pennies to the people that actually need it so its no wonder that children die...Shall I tell Cameron?!xx