'Three children die of abuse a week'

dontcallmecrazy · 10-12-2008 4:06pm #1

Ofsted chief inspector Christine Gilbert told the Government's children's select committee that 210 children died as a result of abuse between April last year and this August.
Among them was 17-month-old Baby P who died in August last year after he suffered more than 50 injuries at the hands of his mother, her boyfriend and their lodger.
Committee chairman Barry Sheerman told Ms Gilbert: "You have brought to us the most horrific figures I've ever seen brought into the public domain."
The statistics quoted by the NSPCC are that between one and two children die following cruelty every week in England and Wales and one child is killed at the hands of their parents every ten days.
Ofsted's annual report published last month concluded that 282 children had died with a suspicion of abuse.
Ms Gilbert said that 72 of those had died as the result of other causes, such as road accidents, leaving 210 who were subject to abuse or neglect.
The committee also heard that 21 of those children were babies, of which only two had been known to social services.
Earlier, Ms Gilbert said Ofsted is considering introducing a "whistleblower hotline" for social workers in light of the Baby P tragedy.
She said the initiative would allow frontline staff to raise any "serious concerns" they had about child safety.
It would be in addition to the measures announced by Schools Secretary Ed Balls aimed at tightening up child protection services in local authorities.
Ms Gilbert told the Commons schools select committee: "We want to make it easier for front-line staff to tell us when things are going wrong.
"We are considering the introduction of a confidential whistle-blowers hotline in 2009 for social workers and other frontline professionals to alert us to any serious concerns about practise that fails to ensure the safety and welfare of those they serve."
Ms Gilbert told the cross-party group of MPs of concerns raised during Ofsted's recent investigation of child protection services at Haringey Council, which had been requested by Mr Balls.
She said: "There were certain procedures which weren't being picked up.
"The ideal is you try to see the child alone or have some personal connection with the child during the visit. That is not always possible, in which case it should be recorded as not possible.
"It was being recorded four or five times that a child could not be seen. This should have been picked up in supervision, which happens between a social worker and the managers."

i know its england etc. but can it be so different here???

Dudess · 10-12-2008 4:10pm

Of course it can! England is a country filled with nothing but lowlives and degenerates, whereas this fair and pleasant isle is a bastion of decency...

biko · 10-12-2008 4:11pm

Calling all jackeens! Stop reading English papers and linking to them in AH.

stovelid · 10-12-2008 4:12pm

dontcallmecrazy wrote: »

i know its england etc.

I'm not sure. Three a week sounds quite low for England.

I'd estimate 30000000000, myself.

6th · 10-12-2008 4:12pm

stovelid wrote: »

I'm not sure. Three a week sounds quite low for England.

I'd estimate 30000000000, myself.

Its clearly a typo.

Mr. Incognito · 10-12-2008 4:14pm

well lets see,

England 60 Million plus and three babies a week.

Ireland, oh, bout 4 million.

Works out to a fifth of a baby a week, or one baby every five weeks.

However they have far more pikies.

Fratton Fred · 10-12-2008 4:15pm

What do you expect from a country that eats babies:rolleyes:

Terry · 10-12-2008 4:15pm

biko wrote: »

Calling all jackeens! Stop reading English papers and linking to them in AH.

Biko's head just exploded.

javaboy · 10-12-2008 4:22pm

So we're going to have an average of 3 and 1 fifth of these horror stories in AH every week? We're going to have to get a think-thank together for some more gruesome punishments. We can't keep hypothetically castrating them and boiling them in oil. That's clearly not working.

@biko: Being serious for a second, the UK has a very similar culture to us and since it's bigger it is useful as a source of statistics. We can observe trends there far easier than we can observe them here due to the bigger sample size. So they are relevant..... unless they're stories from tabloid rags.

Latchy · 10-12-2008 4:25pm

Dudess wrote: »

Of course it can! England is a country filled with nothing but lowlives and degenerates, whereas this fair and pleasant isle is a bastion of decency...

Ah if only it were true although you will find a % of the race do fit into that sterotype .;)

Javaboy - Being serious for a second, the UK has a very similar culture to us and since it's bigger it is useful as a source of statistics. We can observe trends there far easier than we can observe them here due to the bigger sample size. So they are relevant.....

Something many in ireland would not like to own up or admit to .

Fratton Fred · 10-12-2008 4:39pm

javaboy wrote: »

Being serious for a second, the UK has a very similar culture to us and since it's bigger it is useful as a source of statistics. We can observe trends there far easier than we can observe them here due to the bigger sample size. So they are relevant..... unless they're stories from tabloid rags.

not to mention that BBC.co.uk is about a million times better than RTE.ie

OctavarIan · 10-12-2008 4:42pm

Fratton Fred wrote: »

not to mention that BBC.co.uk is about a million times better than RTE.ie

Quoted for truth. There's no comparison between the two.

Varkov · 10-12-2008 4:42pm

Brits oot!

javaboy · 10-12-2008 4:44pm

latchyco wrote: »

Ah if only it were true although you will find a % of the race do fit into that sterotype .;)

You do know Dudess was joking right?

Gyalist · 10-12-2008 4:47pm

Fratton Fred wrote: »

not to mention that BBC.co.uk is about a million times better than RTE.ie

BTW, you don't happen to be one of these sixteen, are you?

Latchy · 10-12-2008 5:02pm

javaboy wrote: »

You do know Dudess was joking right?

Thought somebody might ask me that and the answer is YES !

( i do understand humor and irony )

Fratton Fred · 10-12-2008 5:04pm

Gyalist wrote: »

BTW, you don't happen to be one of these sixteen, are you?

You would never hear me making racist statements, that lot are yids;)

that was when the Spurs fans gave Sol Campbell a load of serious abuse.

javaboy · 10-12-2008 5:06pm

latchyco wrote: »

Thought somebody might ask me that and the answer is YES !

( i do understand humor and irony )

Fair enough it just looked to me like you were taking it at face value.

Latchy · 10-12-2008 5:08pm

If I was going to use an example of british low life degenerates it would be this lot

Although you might find that some of them have good education ,jobs and come from so called respectable families.

Ruu_Old · 10-12-2008 5:11pm

It would be in addition to the measures announced by Schools Secretary Ed Balls..

Ed the Balls!

Latchy · 10-12-2008 5:11pm

javaboy wrote: »

Fair enough it just looked to me like you were taking it at face value.

Nah , being on here long enough to know the difference (using the wink smiley helps ) .

I to have often had people take me at face value when i too was only joking .
Although I do occasionly see some posters comments and go ' He /she must be joking ' .........

javaboy · 10-12-2008 5:15pm

latchyco wrote: »

Nah , being on her long enough to know the difference (using the wink smiley helps )

Freudian slip?

Dudess · 10-12-2008 5:17pm

javaboy wrote: »

You do know Dudess was joking right?

No I wasn't! :mad:

Latchy · 10-12-2008 5:18pm

javaboy wrote: »

Freudian slip?

Errr em ,so unlike me .

Tisint the English language marvelous ?

Latchy · 10-12-2008 5:20pm

Dudess wrote: »

No I wasn't! :mad:

You know something we dont ? :eek:

Fratton Fred · 10-12-2008 5:23pm

Dudess wrote: »

No I wasn't! :mad:

aahh will ya gowan shoite, the English make you hot:cool:

Dudess · 10-12-2008 5:25pm

Sick of those degenerates bringing their protestant ways over here. West Cork is crawling with them... :mad:

Fratton Fred · 10-12-2008 5:41pm

Dudess wrote: »

Sick of those degenerates bringing their protestant ways over here. West Cork is crawling with them... :mad:

They'd be French Prods wouldn't they? The English have more sense than to go to Cork

javaboy · 10-12-2008 5:45pm

Fratton Fred wrote: »

They'd be French Prods wouldn't they? The English have more sense than to go to Cork

The French are too scared to go to West Cork after you know who was bashed to you know what.

Latchy · 10-12-2008 5:45pm

The Cork accents would be lost on the English to .:D

AckwelFoley · 10-12-2008 5:47pm

This is a sad story.

No child needs to die from abuse.

javaboy · 10-12-2008 5:50pm

snyper wrote: »

This is a sad story.

No child needs to die from abuse.

:eek: I just puked in my mouth a little.

'Three children die of abuse a week'

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