Who killed baby P ?

I've never had a high opinion of Social Workers. While there are no doubt many good ones who work had and efficiently to look after us all, some of the most useless wastes of space I have ever encountered have been from the profession. However, unlike the mainstream media I do not believe they go around murdering children.

The question has been asked repeatedly this week, "Who killed Baby P ?" - well the answer is simple - his mother, her boyfriend and their insane lodger. That's what the court says.

Despite this obvious fact, day after day we have the blame shifted to the local Social Services. I appreciate that they were looking at the family, that 60 inspections or examinations (not all by the Social Work team) failed to wrench the child into the loving arms of the local authority before it was too late. BUT, the acts of cruelty were carried out by those closest to the victim. They then put their best efforts into hiding this. If the social workers made mistakes, it was in considering the mother Innocent until proven guilty.

So is the solution to abandon this basic tenet of our legal system, something the Government has been trying to do in respect of terrorism for a few years ?

Possibly. But imaging this. There are currently 31,000 children on the "At Risk" register. According to latest research, 8 out of 10 cases are being missed. That means that just over 1% of the UK's 12.1 million children are potentially at risk. If you decide to take them all into care at the same time for safety's sake, you are going to need one hell of a children's home to house them all.

What has happened this week to various children is terrible. But the only way to stop it would be considered by many to be worse. If you were to remove all children from those statistically most likely to harm them, their parents, there would be an outcry. Yet all those who moan about the "nanny state" and to keep government from interfering in peoples live are now demanding just that. The only silver lining is the increased funds raised by Children in Need this year.

Speaking of the BBC, it is a bit rich for an organisation that had to send thousands of staff on a course to explain that stealing from people via the medium of a rigged phone-in was wrong, to get on it's high horse about anyone else's failures. Making telly is easy. Being a lone social worker in a house full of violent scum and trying to protect a child isn't.