33 + named Children that have Died from Social Services Failures inc Haringey Baby P
This article date has been updated to prepare for new names that will be added to the list
Social services failures are so regular it is a daily occurance and children do die and they will continue dying because social workers, the police, the government and people like the NSPCC do not listen and are often part of the failures despite having millions of pounds to protect children.
These are just a few of social services failures that have ended up in the death of young children.
Baby P - Haringey
Tyra Henry - 21 mnths old - murdered by her dad - her brother Tyrone whose injuries – including fractures of thighs and skull, retinal haemorrhages, and brain damage causing fits – had left the boy blind and with a learning difficulty
Maria Caldwell - Social Services, NSPCC and Police did nothing = Maria Colwell died on 6th January 1973, aged 7
Jasmin Beckford, NSPCC, Social Services failures = Jasmine had been locked in a small bedroom with body-building weights tied to her broken legs to stop her moving. Emaciated and deformed, she weighed just 23 pounds. She had 40 injuries to her face and body – her ribs were also broken and she had ulcers, burns and cuts to her leg.
28 June 1944, Dennis O’Neill = Foster care abuse complaints ignored by Social Services - he died from the abuse
Carly Taylor - her childminder wrote directly to the Director of Social Services, having failed to persuade the senior social worker that Carly was in danger after neighbours and relatives were ignored by social services
Stephen Meurs (1975)
Heidi Koseda (1984),
Jasmine Lorrington was 4 when she died in Brent on 5th July 1984.
20-month old Martin Nicoll 67 injuries
8-yr-old Victoria Climbié kettle of boiling water tipped over her head. Her toes were struck with a hammer. She was beaten with a bicycle chain, belt buckle and had cigarettes stubbed out on her body. She lived in a freezing bath. On 25th February 2000 Victoria died of hypothermia and multiple organ failure, with 128 horrific injuries to her body, after suffering months of horrific abuse and neglect in a tiny flat in Tottenham, London.
Lauren Wright aged 6 was found dead on 6th May 2000 after suffering a fatal blow to the stomach from her stepmother, which caused her digestive system to collapsed
In January 2002 Ainlee Labonte/Walker, of Plaistow, east London, aged two years and 7 months, was starved, punched, scalded, burnt and tortured to death by her parents. She had 64 scars, scalds and bruises on her body, including cigarette burns. The inquiry identified a “lack of communication” between agencies.
John Gray, police failures just 21-months old, suffered more than 200 injuries before he died. John suffered a series of beatings from his mother’s partner. He had more then 200 injuries to 92 parts of his body. His liver had been ruptured, he had a fractured arm, broken ribs and injuries to his testicles. police ignored natural fathers complaints
Tiffany Wright aged 3 was found dead in September 2007 in an insect-infested room in the Sheffield pub run by her mother and stepfather.A review into her death found social services never visited the pub despite a midwife’s fears that their children were left alone in unfit conditions.
Bristol have been criticised for information sharing and assessment failings in the case of a 10-year-old girl who died following years of neglect. A serious case review into the care received by “Child A”, who died from a heart attack after falling into a bath of scalding hot water, said professionals failed to grasp the level of neglect endured by her and her seven siblings. Though the children were placed on the child protection register from May 2003 to January 2004, they received no other systematic assessment of their needs, while professionals treated significant risk indicators in isolation, failing to build up a picture of the family situation.
Police and social services failed to visit seven-year-old Khyra Ishaq in the four months before she apparently starved to death, despite an initial “welfare check” on the family
An inquiry into the care of a seven-year-old girl who was shot dead while staying with a convicted crack dealer has uncovered a catalogue of failures by social services, children’s guardians and immigration officials.Toni-Ann Byfield was under protection of Birmingham City Council. Police believe Toni-Ann was murdered to prevent her from identifying Mr Byfield’s killer.
A coroner accused social workers of a “gross, total and complete” failure to protect a 13-month-old girl who died in squalor. Sophie Casey’s grandparents, a neighbour and a hospital had warned them about her mother’s neglect and the one-armed heroin addict who lived with them.
Tyrell Rowe 19-months old, died in hospital on 17 October from brain damage after being repeatedly punched in the face. Hackney Council social services had been supervising the baby, but had not examined him during that period.Judge Anthony Morris criticised the council for not making public an internal investigation into the death. ‘Lack of protection’ “I find it regrettable because the purpose of such an investigation must be how such failures occurred and to prevent them happening again,” he said. “I am disappointed by the apparent lack of protection given to Tyrell by the social services department.”
A baby girl murdered by her sadistic father could have survived if health and social workers had taken action over signs of illtreatment, a damning report said yesterday. Jessica Randall was just 54 days old when she died. Her brief life was dominated by systematic and horrific abuse at the hands of her 33-year-old father Andrew, who was jailed for her murder.A report found that both social workers and hospital staff failed to classify her as a child “at risk”, even though concerns over her safety were raised a number of times.Jessica was seen on ten separate occasions by up to 30 healthcare professionals, including doctors, health visitors and nurses.
April 26, 2005, Kimberley Baker died,” he said. “She should by that time have been a thriving, lively 11-month-old girl and she was not. “She was a pitiful, seriously emaciated mite, dehydrated and starved with severe ulcerations to her buttocks. “Her weight was that of a six-week-old baby. Her skin fell loosely around her. Photographs of her are truly shocking. “Her chance of a decent life or any life in this world had been snuffed out by the appalling negligence of you two. Despite the concerns over Kimberley the health worker did not go upstairs to see the baby.
Social workers and police were accused of disastrous failures that led to the murder of a month-old baby. Luigi Askew was left at the mercy of his violent father Duncan Mills, who had a prison record and a history of assaulting girlfriends. A social worker and a health visitor called at the baby’s home the day before he was beaten to death by his father last May. They reported the child was “developing well”.
Vivian Gamor, 29, murdered Antoine, 10, and suffocating Kenniece, three, in Hackney, east London. Judge criticised a council after it allowed a mentally ill woman access to her children before she killed them.
Sophie Merry, three, had a ruptured intestine and 170 bruises
Chelsea Pickering, 11 months, died after neglect
Kimberley Carlile, four, died after being starved and beaten by her stepfather, Nigel Hall. Greenwich social workers were allowed only to peep through a glass panel at the top of a bedroom door. The inquiry recommended that responses be made immediately to any referral suggestive of child abuse.
Doreen Mason, 16 months, died after her mother and boyfriend bruised and burnt her and broke her leg but failed to have her injuries treated. The inquiry said her social worker was inexperienced and unsupervised and that Southwark social services had a “siege mentality”.
Leanne White, three, was beaten to death by her stepfather, Colin Sleate. An inquiry said Nottinghamshire social services had not responded properly to warnings from her grandmother and neighbours.
Chelsea Brown, two, was battered to death by her father, Robert Brown. Her Derbyshire social worker visited 27 times in the 10 weeks before her death. A paediatrician said some of her injuries had “no plausible explanation”. That should have triggered a case conference and police involvement.
Delayno Mullings-Sewell and his two-year-old brother, Romario,Manchester social services staff faced questions
This is just the tip of the iceberg on children that have died as a result of Social Services failures and it is imperitive the public stay outraged and demand changes and every time they see social services failures the public must speak up because you never know when it will happen to a child you know
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On 27th Nov 2010 at 03:21 PM Andy Tom said...
This the sorrowful post. I just make them know sympathy. Thanks.
On 11th Dec 2010 at 02:55 PM Stacey said...
Our family are being set up in a kangaroo courts by socia services. My mum is a great mum, we love her. She has never had a police record or with social services,the reason they are involved is because our brother has Microcaphaly, his brain grows but not his skull, this has caused him more illnesses, but the social say my mum is abusing him mentally and has caused his illness herself, although he has been medicated for years and had head scans.
They then said he is not to be medicated but the doctor said he has too, they threatend he will lose his job, our brother was un medicated and his health was really bad. We are still fighting, he is on child protection and they wont take him off till we drop the case against them.
They said my mum HAS to sign forms agreing that she abuses us, but she said she cant, they said she will take all us away fro her if she doesnt, my mum refused so we are on child protection now.
They made my dad lose his job by calling his work place and saying he had no education at all although he has worked there for years.
They then said they want all his kids names and their kids names and addresses and want to know if they have records.
They set up meetings far away from whee we live at the same time we are meant to go to school and if mum misses one we go to a home, we are all in tears and scared of every knock on the door, we just want our brother to get the right support and help he needs for his illness, we love our mum, she has never even rised a hand up to us or shouted, we dont need protection from our mum we need it from the social services!!
In the meetings the people who was voting for us now voted against us, they was told to or they lose their jobs, they called mum after crying apologising saying they had no choice
We are being bullied and set up and no one wants to help us and if they do they cant.
Why are they doing this to us. We are all stressed and heart broken!
They even gave our real dad our address saying they want him to have custody of us but it was him who used to abuse us when we were little, he had a shot gun to us and stamped on my baby brothers head which gave him his illness in the first place, the thing is the social services know about it, he called us the other day, now he knows where we live, we’ve just moved, things was happy and safe, now Im scared and so are all of us
SOCIAL SERVICES PLEASE STOP KILLING INNOCENT FAMILYS AND SETTING US UP IN KANGAROO COURTS!! WE DON’T NEED PROTECTING FROM OUR FAMILY BUT FROM YOU!
All those cases you read in the news papers about bad mums, they’re not all real, they’re gagged then labelled for something they didnt do, I know,its happening to us
PLEASE HELP CHANGE THE SYSTEM XXXX
On 4th Jan 2011 at 09:29 AM Greenwood Pole said...
I will catch your post again. I love the thoughts you’ve shared. They are explicitly explained. Thanks for the post.
On 7th Jan 2011 at 11:59 AM Don said...
Dear Kate (15th Nov 2010)
If only things were that simple but you see…
Sadistic abusers that inflict injuries on children also happen to find lots of work within social care and child protection etc.(Soham, Jersey, Islington).
Plus, if these so called social workers who work for us delivering services through our monies were to stick to the truth instead of trying to set families up in court just to get their brownie-power-points then they would not be stuck in their “own” Home-grown, Home-made dilemma…
“Damned because they’re obnoxiously corrupt!” And, “If the cap fits!” springs to mind.
A complete overhaul of all services that deal with vulnerable people is the only positive step that we can take to change this ongoing perversely fraudulent situation.
On 19th Jan 2011 at 08:43 PM P Howard said...
hi these stories dont supprise me ” the biggest abusers are social services . I was im 35 now and was in care until i was 16 i was in no less than 15 different placements and saw abuse in most of them. I was tortored by a member of staff in the last home i was in and told my social worker who did nothing!! i tried to commit suicide many times and am now under a sphycolagist and been diagnosed with severe childhood ptsd.. i tried to report this case 15 years ago and never heard back from police ..I then reported it to police 18 mnths ago and was told i will need a special interview i heard nothing so recently went to another police station and explained what ive done give them the case number etc and was told sorry it hasnt been dealt with and i had a case if i wanted for police neglect” i said forget it i just want this to get dealt with and interviewed as i have very good witnesses etc” the sergent told me they were goin to ring me within a few days for the interview and didnt so i rang them 3 days ago and was told by the police officer in charge she will ring me thurs / fri to give me the interview date ??? lets see !! for sum reason they try to cover these things up and for all i know he could still be abusing children ...the police r just as bad as the murdering social workers and if uve got kids they will try n silence you by taking them.. any one got any advise please
On 5th Feb 2011 at 11:11 PM Teresa said...
I am studying to be a social worker and as much as I would like to stand up for social workers I just can’t. I read the above losses of precious lives and the fact that these innocent victims have no future. It is clear to see that they were failed by the social workers and it wasnt even as if they were not recognised to be at risk, we are not in this job to be liked we are in this job to protect the vulnerable. It goes without saying that the ones that are at fault are the sadistic abusers but we cannot walk away without taking a share of blame. We must be responsible for making decisions but also we must be backed up on the decisions that are made. We Must help to save the innocent victims.
On 23rd Feb 2011 at 07:47 PM ashley said...
hi people
Children and adults have suffered enough and social services dont seem to do anything i have been where those kids were. I was sexual abused and I am still fight the emotions that came with it. Wishing that those kids had a chance to a least try to live a life with the pain ans suffering that came with our experience and wishing that we could have all been there to protect the ones that needed us
On 30th May 2011 at 07:54 PM cream said...
Social services are a disgrace and the biggest bastards in the Uk along with CAFCASS. I have evidence to prove this and one day soon i will be naming and shaming everyone involved, judges, barristers, lawyers, especially CAFCASS and social services and the police for their failures into turning a blind eye to the abuse my daughter has suffered at the hands of her illiterate mother. The social services wrote a false report and then the report writer i believe recieved a discilplinary, probably only verbal and i got a written apology. CAFCASS report was also falsified and for that too i got a written apology. The law is corrupt.
On 19th Jul 2011 at 09:21 AM Eric said...
The Social Services are an appaling bunch of liars and deceitful scumbags.
They claim to act on the child’s best interests yet clearly this is not the case.
How can it be in a child’s best interest to have them passed round from carer to carer to carer, having their education disrupted and losing touch with people who actually cared for them.
I am a former foster carer and have witnessed first hand what dreadful practices go on within the care system.
If you infact are a good carer who actually tries their best to do something positive for the children, you are not the type that are required by the Social workers.
If you challenge them on what you think is best for the child or voice any opinion that goes against what they have done, you will be de-registered.
All they want are people who can put a roof over a childs head and not ask too many questions regarding what is best for the child.
There are so many kids in care that shouldn’t be and yet are being damaged more because of being in the care system.
The truth is, the social workers know this but do not tackle the issue. They simply just follow blindly a system that fails the children horrifically.
They cannot form proper relationships with adults as it is likely they will just be passed on again therby losing touch with anyone they previously got on well with.
Their education will be disrupted from continuously being passed from school to school.
They lose touch with friends from the various places and schools they attended.
They can never feel settled as they don’t ever really know how long a particular placement will last.
They have a very distorted relationship with their own parents because contact will be managed and observed by the social work.
It is likely that as a result of their experience and distorted childhood, they too will likely have children that will end up in care.
They will unlikely gain qualifications at school so will find it harder to get a job and often become homeless and drug addicted.
They often develop mental problems because of the lack of proper love and care that would be normal in any other family but obviously not in a foster home because of safer carer requirements.
They are highly unlikely to go back to their parents as well rounded and capable young men and women.
More likely their parents will feel like strangers to them like so many other people that they have encountered while in care.
For every story we hear on the news about a child that has died because of social workers making mistakes—there are hundreds more children that are having their lives completely ruined because of the social work.
We just don’t hear about them because the child didn’t actually die.
One good example is Britains youngest mum.
Passed round the care system by the social work, needs neglected, issues not addressed, baby removed from her and put up for adoption.
This young girl has been completely failed by the system that is supposed to protect her.
On leaving the care system at 16 she was addicted to cigarretes, drugs and alcohol and her life was completely messed up.
How can any social worker feel that they have done a good job when all they do is leave a trail of destruction in peoples lives whenever they get involved.
I utterly deplore the way that social workers portray themselves as acting in the childs best interest when they haven’t got a clue.
They wouldn’t know what is best for a child since they never listen to anyone but themselves.
The system is cruel and corrupt and i only wish people really knew half of what goes on.
Oh yes, and if you think that the standards that supposed to be followed by social workers are adhered to—-what a laugh.
They can do what they like since they are protected by other social workers practising the same sub standard procedures.
I just hope sometime soon, the public will really find out just what is going on in the care system.
On 31st Aug 2011 at 02:59 AM darkone said...
Shocking!! Rip… I just copied this web address and sent it via text to my lying useless social worker who promised me help with my children and haven’t seen throughout the 6 week summer holiday forcing me to nearly reach breaking point- but I LOVE my unique children and even though they have problems and are on the radar I will never ask for help again…. :(
On 4th Oct 2011 at 10:29 AM bubzy said...
i am a single mother of four children which i have just had them taken away and put into care for no good reason i was in a bad relationship many years ago and social service will not leave us alone and now they have ripped my family apart when there are many children out there that need the help but social service dont care about childrn who need it ive been reading all the very story of all the poor children who have sadly died under the care of social service something need to be done and very soon because my poor children and myself have not done nothing wrong and they have been taken away from their mummy and they are very sad
On 9th Oct 2011 at 03:25 PM cupcake said...
I think we have a bred a culture of people who are afraid to stand up and say this is wrong. It is difficult when you are working in a culture where no one listens, you are under supported and people try to brush over the obvious. On every level we fail as a nation if we allow this culture to carry on. It is almost too easy to say a review or a sacking will change this culture. Reviews have been undertaken for 60+ years and unless we insist on radical change this will continue.
On 21st Nov 2011 at 07:42 PM Betty Jane Hunt said...
I am oicking this back up on Nov.21st 2011. You all are so right. here in Robeson County we face the same mess and it is mess and our children have to pay for it. My nephew just buried his baby girl, Edna Trinity Hunt. The mother and boyfriend abused her and she died. The mother took her to South Carolina where she died. South Carolian said it was the worse case in the history of South Carolina. Such, things they did to this Little Edna 3 yearsold. We have started The EDNA awareness Walk. Please let me know if you receive this I am on face book as Betty Hunt or my e-mail is .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) . I see that people get started insomething and then it fades away. I hope we can count on you helping us out with this. If you go to face book and befriend kendria Hunt you can see the story about this walk or go to youtube and see memories of Edna Trinity Hunt. Comment back to me by e-mail Thanks. We need to walk, stand up or just be there for a child.
On 24th Nov 2011 at 07:57 AM ruth said...
Why allow a child to go through all this ill treatment even after leaning about thier parents’ waekness.Peopel with good training, with an open eye to details and with a heart to do the job should be the ones to be employed and not those who are just after money.Its children we are talking about here,these are the futuer leaders and we should do our every best to protect them.What kind of person would want to harm a powerless child,these people need to be locked up for ever,they are not normal
On 22nd Dec 2011 at 08:13 AM gazza said...
My Ex partner is mentally ill and keeps trying too take her life and also haulocinating yet all social services do is keep putting my son back in danger by putting him back with her. I as his father can give him a loving stable home but they overlook that in favour of his mentally ill mother. They really are a waste of space.
On 5th Apr 2012 at 07:00 AM angrybird said...
Kate
I agree, but you have to admit, they are very few and far between, there is more bad social workers, who use caseloads as an excuse to ignore abuse. It goes on because society is full of different personalities and empowerment, over the weak, and that to me dear is the height of social workers, so stressed they overlook the good parents and have tunnel vision because they are stuck in a world of abuse and judge every family every dad, every mother, like coppers put a uniform on them and they think they are the supreme god given righteous being to do to say and act as they like because against them, you have no fight, they stick together they book of lies and run by it, and this government allows it and takes their word, just paper chasers in overcoats
On 4th May 2012 at 09:07 AM ELVIS said...
i’am a father of 6 children and is married to a beautiful mother for 15yrs of being together,we have 3 of these children with special need issue’s and been fighting CAMHS for approx 7 yrs with the 2 eldest,one of the youngest has been seen quickly and diagnosed with asbergers who is nearly 6 yrs old.
We had social services involved for approx 2 years we’ve had 100’s of meetings in about 2007-2009 they seem to help then they just dumped us sayin we are not a needy family anymore,things started getting worse we rung the s/s back up your not a needy family,i went into a dark hole and stayed in it far about 18mths with drinking, medication then last june after an arguement and i left for approx 5 days i turned my life around and started to fight for my family but with the 6-7 week holidays it was difficult as they took my daughter off her medication,then in sept i started back into the depression mood again and we had an arguement and then s/s got involved made loads of stories were made up and i tryed to fight it with CAB, solicators etc, so then a manager rung me saying if i fight them i will make your life very difficult and by ALMIGHTY GOD she has just done that child protection orders,care supervision orders and now care orders and now my daughter is going into foster care and my wife has to move away from me as i’v been living in a house near them for the last 9 mths yet nothing has happened to make them think they are in DANGER A RISK,
They have to much power for there own good of the children they bully the courts as PROFESSOR JANE IRELAND has stated, im in court in july to see if i can move back in with part of my family as my daughter wont be there!! I COULD STATE ALOT MORE BUT IT WOULD TAKE FOREVER LIKE MY LOSSES!!