BASW has said that difficult questions remain about the approach taken to staff involved in the Baby Peter Connelly case, following today’s decision by the Court of Appeal to reject a claim of unfair dismissal brought by two of the boy’s social workers against Haringey Council. Maria Ward and Gillie Christou were appealing against a …
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Mar 21
ENGLAND – Baby P social workers lose appeal over sacking
Judges back employment tribunal decision that Haringey council acted reasonably in dismissing Maria Ward and Gillie Christou Gillie Christou (left) and Maria Ward were dismissed because of serious failings in their care of Peter Connelly, who died in August 2007. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA Two of Baby P‘s social workers have lost an appeal against an …
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Jan 26
ENGLAND – Dummy taped to baby’s face at Stafford Hospital
A report into “appalling standards” of care at the hospital is to be published in February A member of staff has been suspended after a dummy was found taped to a baby’s face at Stafford Hospital. Staffordshire Police said it happened earlier this month and the baby was four months old at the time. Colin …
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Jan 23
ENGLAND – Female social worker ‘sexually abused two sisters aged six and ten while working as their live-in nanny’
Elaine Hewitt is accused of sexually abusing two young sisters she was tasked with caring for while working as their nanny over 30 years ago The girls were aged six and ten when alleged abuse is said to started in 1981, while the defendant, now 49, was working for their family near Watford Hewitt, who …
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Jan 23
UK – Two-thirds of children who died of abuse in 2012 ‘could have been saved’
Campaigners accuse Government of failing to protect the rights of children Nearly two-thirds of children who died as a result of abuse last year could have been saved, a damning report has claimed. Campaigners have accused the Government of failing to protect the rights of children after they revealed that 65 per cent of child …
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