We're failing vulnerable children
Extract from Telegraph blog:
"When will the Government – any Government – ever get to grips with the appalling lack of co-ordination and disgraceful blame-denial that goes on amongst our so-called ‘caring’ agencies whenever we have a case , such as that reported today of little Jessica Randall.
She was only 54 days old when she died but during her tragically short life this baby was sexually abused and repeatedly battered by Andrew, her monster of a father. In spite of spending half of her life in Kettering General Hospital and having been seen by 30 health workers and visited at her home ten times, nobody appeared to know what was going on and nobody apparently suspected the systematic abuse to which she was being subjected.
When she died she had a fractured skull and numerous broken ribs.
Yet there they were on the Ten O’Clock News last night, a whole row of them – the representatives of the medical, nursing, social work and other agency staff whose main role is to supposed to be protect and safeguard the most vulnerable in society, yet are so often found wanting.
Nobody who saw this little girl thought it advisable to report Jessica has being at risk. And as is usual in such cases of horrific child abuse nobody but nobody is to blame, at least according to the official report, which was not as far as those involved were concerned, a “whitewash”."
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