Yet another child dies through the experts failure to act!

Whilst the government is seeking to include ever more families in 'tick the box' surveillance and monitoring databases, seeking intrusive monitoring and control over innocent families, they are ignoring the fact that they cannot adequately deal with the known cases of children being abused!

Poor Demi Leigh was known to child protection agencies, neighbours had phoned to express concern about her, her mother was a known drug addict. What did the authorities do? - they decided that the case could be closed, they didn't do their job! The result - Demi died at the hands of her babysitter.

We can never be sure that following the right procedures would have saved Demi but we do know that she wasn't even given that chance, her mother should have been supported and the authorities should have been involved in this little girl's life to ensure that she was being properly cared for.

We now get all the usual "lessons will be learned" rubbish.

We get told after every death of a child that "lessons will be learned", they never are though are they? There will be a bit of a shake up, new procedures will be written and the next child will be failed just as tragically as all the others.

Yet the authorities want to trawl for ever greater numbers of children to check up on, adding to the workload of social workers who cannot cope with the caseload they already have, this will simply lead to more children being failed, more tragic deaths as innocent families are bullied and harrassed to prove that they are not harming their children......

First they come for the home educators,
Then they came for ...... Who's next?.......

The home education review has nothing to do with home education but it has everything to do with drawing innocent families into the child protection system where they will be harmed by officials who SHOULD be protecting children like Demi.

http://www.renegadeparent.net/post/Badman-and-Balls-have-stitched-us-up.aspx
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8120560.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8120525.stm