Another Death By Social Services.......

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-61165786
why was the kid not taken away from his junky "mother"?

[Canary42]

/// why was the kid not taken away from his junky "mother"? ///

Because the Welfare State, much hated by the Tory Party, has been under-funded for so many years as a result that it is no longer able to cope with its workload.

[ToraToraTora]

don't play politics with a kids death canary. This is about Social services being kin useless, end of.

[ladybirder]

Be interested to see how long she gets in prison.


Oh and she wasn't "dependant" on drugs, she was "dependent" on them.

Apologies TTT but it annoys me when BBC can't check their ruddy spelling!

[Prudie]

Well said TTT, this poor child WAS being seen by social services and it appears they failed.

[dannyk13]

Canary//the Welfare State, much hated by the Tory Party,//
Not a question of politics so why peddle your anti-Tory agenda on thread that deserves sympathy not venom.

[Peter Pedant]

// why was the kid not taken away from his junky "mother"?
//
chrissakes they do worse in care

what like die? TTT asks anxiously righto!
yeah death drugs abuse - life in care is not a great load of fun ( altho some emerge normal)

[Deskdiary]

I read this story last night and it was sickening.

I’m waiting for the usual “lessons will be learned” b0110cks they usually come out with.

If these neglectful agencies haven’t learned lessons by now, they never will.

Without question the scum chav adults were responsible for this child’s death, but the social services absolutely bear some responsibility for his death.

I sincerely hope the social services people who saw this child are struggling to sleep at night with the guilt.

[Gromit]

The Process to take him into care was underway.
All the agencies met on Friday and the decision was taken. The social worker was due to inform the mother on Monday, but the boy died on Sunday.

The mother neglected the boy, not health, education and social workers.

[New Judge]

//Because the Welfare State, much hated by the Tory Party, has been under-funded for so many years as a result that it is no longer able to cope with its workload.//

Really?:-

"Social services were aware of Hakeem before his death different agencies discussed his case just days before his death."

There are too many "agencies" holding "case conferences" and "discussions" over tea and bikkies. Each of them is more concerned with protecting their backs rather than the children brought to their attention. Like the NHS, social services is not a shambles because of lack of funds. It is a shambles because it is badly managed by inept people earning far too much money.

"A Child Safeguarding Practice Review into their contact with the youngster and his mother is set to be published within weeks."

And a lot of good that will do the hapless Hakeem. More tea and bikkies, reports published (when everybody has forgotten all about the tragedy), "lessons will be learned". How many lessons need to be learned to find out that you do not leave a small child with a drug addled mother?

[New Judge]

And yes, Gromit is right. It was the mother who was the culpable party. But if we're going to fund people to protect neglected children, they need to perform a little better.

[ToraToraTora]

it just beggars belief, one visit for a few minutes and it should be obvious the kid is not safe. Just look around a druggies place and the stink and paraphernalia are obvious. They are just obsessed with TROB cobras over the lives of kids like this.

[anneasquith]

Dear God another child dead. This death was preventable. Did the fact the ‘ meeting’ took place on a Friday have baring on the outcome?

[ToraToraTora]

anne: "Did the fact the ‘ meeting’ took place on a Friday have baring on the outcome? " - in a way, they didn't need a meeting, anyone with an once of common would get the kid taken away on the first visit.

[ToraToraTora]

ounce!

[calmck]

It happens everywhere. When I was working in NYC we reported child abuse. Told by social services all was fine. Child went home. Dead two days later drowned in the bath by her mother

[andy-hughes]

My wife worked as Deputy Head in an inner-city school with huge social problems being highlighted on a daily basis.

Times without number she implored Social Services to take vulnerable children into care away parents who were neglectful and / or abusive.

The response mantra was constant and un-ending - Social Services always err on the side of 'keeping families together' even in instances where children were clearly undergoing harm and in imminent danger of serious injury or death.

Even though, as in this case, organisations do act to safeguard children, the processes are so woefully unwieldy and slow, that by the time any action is taken, it's too late.

[davebro]

Where are the NSPCC in all this? If animals are abused/at risk the RSPCA & police have powers to remove them. Why not children?

[Redhelen72]

Children used to be taken away from the parents on the first report as TTT suggests, however of those children taken away the majority shouldn’t have and the SS got in trouble for it and now because of that they have to have case conferences with schools and police and GPS.
It delays things unfortunately.
Children don’t fare well in the system in some some cases they are abused sexually mentally and verbally.
Perhaps something needs to be put in place when these vulnerable children are born?

[sp1814]

Another child dies, and the experts comes swarming out.

[youngmafbog]

//Another child dies, and the experts comes swarming out.//

No, people are quite rightly fed up with kids suffering and dying because SS dont act. Or do you think what they did was ok and the poor lad was just another statistic?