Doncaster child abuse mum jailed

Not just Harringey and Birmingham Social Services are renowned for poor service. Doncaster too has been lambasted by the courts.

Doncaster social services have again been blasted after a judge was told of four years of hell suffered by two girls.

The sisters, now eight and 10, were repeatedly beaten.

Their mother cannot be named and neither can her partner who called the girls "tarts, scruffy idiots" and "little b*****ds". The oldest girl told police he hit her 50 times with his belt buckle.

Social services took the girls off the child protection register six months after they had been deemed at risk.

Judge Jacqueline Davies spoke of a "horrid process of intimidation" on "defenseless little girls". She said: "It is concerning social services placed them on the register in April 2005 and removed them six months later."

The mother, 31, was jailed for 21 months. Her partner, 26, was jailed for three years and three months.

Doncaster social services apologised last month after two boys were tortured last year by brothers, now 11 and 12, who the department knew had violent pasts.

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Was it my multi-blogged moan that un-locked my new blog http://sequels-and-trilogies.blogspot.com/ ?
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Birmingham social services children's director told to 'stop making excuses'

The man brought in to fix Birmingham Council's troubled children's services has been told to "stop making excuses" after blaming stress levels for high absence rates among social workers.

Absenteeism has been an ongoing issue in Birmingham social services, with staff signed off ill an average of 24.9 days a year - a significantly higher amount than the national figure.

In an article in TheGuardian last week, the council's director of children's services Colin Tucker (pictured below) attributed this rate to the stress and pressure social workers face, particularly since the number of increased referrals after the Baby P case.
But councillor Len Clark, head of the scrutiny committee that in October deemed Birmingham's child protection "not fit for purpose", disagreed, saying Tucker was failing to address the issue properly.

"Despite Colin's assertions, the scrutiny committee's findings were to the contrary," he said. "Absenteeism has been a persistent problem since before the increase in referrals. We didn't employ Colin to make excuses for this problem, we hired him to fix it."

Report slams Birmingham Social Services

A recent published report (05 October 2009) has heavily criticised Birmingham City Council's Social Services department. Video Editor Phil Vinter highlights the report's major conclusions. There are interviews with the report's author and an irate Khalid Mahmood MP for Perry Barr, who was previously a local councillor.

Baby P and the Death Toll Keeps Rising. 52 + Named Children Now Dead from Social Services Failures

I wanted to do an update as the shocking numbers grow on children dying from Social Services failures. With the numbers rising let us not forget that doesn’t include the children that are dying IN social services care and the DCSF report shows that Children placed in care are three time more likely to die than others and a DCSF report showed that 800 children have died in care in the last ten years which is on average 2 a week so where does this leave children in need of protection who are then placed in care and should be safe from harm and neglect?.

PLEASE NOTE, THESE FIGURES WILL BE UPDATED EVERYTIME WE RECIEVE OR FIND INFORMATION ON A CHILD MURDERED. ALL INVOLVE SOCIAL SERVICES FAILURES AND ALMOST EVERYONE INCLUDED NSPCC FAILURES TOO. THERE ARE STILL AT LEAST A FURTHER 40 NAMES TO ADD TO THIS LIST SO BARE WITH ME AS I AM SEEKING THEIR AGES AT DEATH