Since my printer has bust and only printed 2 pages of this article, heres the full article for you all to have a read!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1584963/To-smack-or-not-to-smack.html
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Child protection- Victoria Climbie's story
Victoria Climbie's life was a short and tragic one. She was born in the Ivory Coast on 2nd Novemeber 1991. When Victoria was 7 years old she went to live with her Aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao initially in Paris but due to her aunt having the French authorities in pursuit of her for benefit payments, Victoria's aunt bought her to live in London in 1999. In London her aunt takes a job as a hospital cleaner and at that time they were living in a hostel.
One day whilst on a bus with her aunt, Victoria meets for the first time Carl Manning. Marie and Victoria move into Carl's house and within days of them moving in Victoria began suffering abuse at the hands of Carl. This is the abuse that lead to her torture and eventually her death.
Victoria had her first visit to hospital when her childminders daughter suspects that she has non-accidental injuries. Marie persuades the doctors that Victoria has self inflicted wounds caused by scratching at sores from when she had scabies. As a precaution, doctors do contact child protection authorities. Although, the social worker and police cancel a scheduled home visit to check up on Victoria due to them hearing about the scabies.
Victoria is taken to hospital again later that month with scalding to her face and head. Doctors then immediately suspected the injuries had been deliberate. Marie tells the social worker and policewoman assigned to the case that she had poured hot water over Victorias head to try and stop her from scratching her scalp and that other injuries were caused by Victoria herself using cooking utensils.
Child protection services accept Marie's explanation of how Victoria got her injuries and allows her to be collected from hospital around a week later.
A few months later Marie tells social workers that Carl has sexually abused Victoria but then withdraws the accusation the next day. The police write to Marie for an explanation of why the accusation was withdrew, with no response to the letter the police take no more further action in the case. The following month Victoria is rushed into hospital after suffering from a combination of malnutrition and hypothermia. She is then transferred to an intensive care ward in a different part of London.
Victoria is declared dead at 3:15pm on 25th February, 2000. Dr Nathaniel Carey, the Home Office pathologist that examined her body found 128 seperate injuries and scars, many of them were cigarette burns. Evidence from the trial revealed that over a 3 month period Carl forced Victoria to sleep in a bin liner every night.
Both Marie and Carl got life for the murder of Victoria. Marie and Carl both believed that Victoria was possessed.
The next year a public inquiry is opened into the death of Victoria. Ministers make it clear that they expect the inquiry to scrutinise the child protection system and not just the failings in the Climbie case.
Here's some dates when the inquiry took the place and what happened on that certain occasion..
One day whilst on a bus with her aunt, Victoria meets for the first time Carl Manning. Marie and Victoria move into Carl's house and within days of them moving in Victoria began suffering abuse at the hands of Carl. This is the abuse that lead to her torture and eventually her death.
Victoria had her first visit to hospital when her childminders daughter suspects that she has non-accidental injuries. Marie persuades the doctors that Victoria has self inflicted wounds caused by scratching at sores from when she had scabies. As a precaution, doctors do contact child protection authorities. Although, the social worker and police cancel a scheduled home visit to check up on Victoria due to them hearing about the scabies.
Victoria is taken to hospital again later that month with scalding to her face and head. Doctors then immediately suspected the injuries had been deliberate. Marie tells the social worker and policewoman assigned to the case that she had poured hot water over Victorias head to try and stop her from scratching her scalp and that other injuries were caused by Victoria herself using cooking utensils.
Child protection services accept Marie's explanation of how Victoria got her injuries and allows her to be collected from hospital around a week later.
A few months later Marie tells social workers that Carl has sexually abused Victoria but then withdraws the accusation the next day. The police write to Marie for an explanation of why the accusation was withdrew, with no response to the letter the police take no more further action in the case. The following month Victoria is rushed into hospital after suffering from a combination of malnutrition and hypothermia. She is then transferred to an intensive care ward in a different part of London.
Victoria is declared dead at 3:15pm on 25th February, 2000. Dr Nathaniel Carey, the Home Office pathologist that examined her body found 128 seperate injuries and scars, many of them were cigarette burns. Evidence from the trial revealed that over a 3 month period Carl forced Victoria to sleep in a bin liner every night.
Both Marie and Carl got life for the murder of Victoria. Marie and Carl both believed that Victoria was possessed.
The next year a public inquiry is opened into the death of Victoria. Ministers make it clear that they expect the inquiry to scrutinise the child protection system and not just the failings in the Climbie case.
Here's some dates when the inquiry took the place and what happened on that certain occasion..
May 2001:
Lord Laming opens the inquiry and in an unprecedented move calls both Marie Therese Kouao and Carl Manning to give evidence. He says the killers should appear at the inquiry to help it establish where the authorities failed to stop them.
Lord Laming opens the inquiry and in an unprecedented move calls both Marie Therese Kouao and Carl Manning to give evidence. He says the killers should appear at the inquiry to help it establish where the authorities failed to stop them.
The inquiry is split into two parts. You can read the key stories on the Victoria Climbie special report.
The first part or phase takes the testimony of more than 230 witnesses
including neighbours, child protection officers and high-ranking social
services officials.
During this phase, the inquiry heard allegations of racism, incompetence
and agencies neglecting their duty of care to Victoria. The inquiry
hears of 12 occasions when agencies could have intervened and possibly
saved the girl's life.
The second part during 2002 uses a series of special one-day seminars to
bring invited experts together to debate the nature of the child
protection system and help Lord Laming draw up his conclusions.
July 2002
Lord Laming reopens the first phase of the inquiry after it emerges that a critical document by social services inspectors had not been revealed to his team.
Lord Laming reopens the first phase of the inquiry after it emerges that a critical document by social services inspectors had not been revealed to his team.
August 2002
Carole Baptiste, one of the key social workers in the case, is found guilty of failing to attend the public inquiry and fined $500.
Carole Baptiste, one of the key social workers in the case, is found guilty of failing to attend the public inquiry and fined $500.
November 2002
Two further social workers at the heart of the Victoria Climbie child abuse scandal are sacked for gross misconduct. Lisa Arthurworrey and her manager Angella Mairs are dismissed by Haringey Council in north London following disciplinary proceedings.
Two further social workers at the heart of the Victoria Climbie child abuse scandal are sacked for gross misconduct. Lisa Arthurworrey and her manager Angella Mairs are dismissed by Haringey Council in north London following disciplinary proceedings.
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