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Sharon Shoesmith: how social workers can get their professional pride back

Community Care

Director of education and children’s services at Haringey Council when the Peter Connelly case (known at the time as Baby P) hit the headlines of every news outlet in 2008, Shoesmith was removed from her post during a live TV press conference by the then secretary of state for children, Ed Balls. Haringey Council swiftly sacked her.

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‘Profiteering off children’: care firms in England accused of squeezing cash from councils

The Guardian

Barry Lewis, the Tory leader of Derbyshire county council, said that former family-run businesses acquired by private equity groups were trying to get “as much cash as possible” out of local authorities. Continue reading.

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Finley Boden ‘should have been one of the most protected children’, finds review

The Guardian

Baby murdered by his parents after ‘inadequate safeguarding’ by authorities in Derbyshire, says report A 10-month-old baby, who was killed by his parents just 39 days after a court returned him to their care, should have been “one of the most protected children in the local authority area”, a review has concluded.