Summary
THE cases of Maria Colwell and Victoria Climbie have been used, quite wrongly, to increase the power of the state to interfere in families.
These gruesome abuse episodes do not happen in normal, stable families. They are far more likely to take place in homes where there is no husband but a string of serial boyfriends.See the full content of this document
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The Abuse of Power Won't Stop the Abuse of Children
They also don't happen because there are too few people poking and probing into our homes. Victoria Climbie, in her brief and terrible life, was known to four social services departments, three housing authorities, two 'child protection' teams from the police and one 'child protection' centre run ...
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