Baby P and the Death Toll Keeps Rising. 52 + Named Children Now Dead from Social Services Failures
I wanted to do an update as the shocking numbers grow on children dying from Social Services failures. With the numbers rising let us not forget that doesn’t include the children that are dying IN social services care and the DCSF report shows that Children placed in care are three time more likely to die than others and a DCSF report showed that 800 children have died in care in the last ten years which is on average 2 a week so where does this leave children in need of protection who are then placed in care and should be safe from harm and neglect?.
PLEASE NOTE, THESE FIGURES WILL BE UPDATED EVERYTIME WE RECIEVE OR FIND INFORMATION ON A CHILD MURDERED. ALL INVOLVE SOCIAL SERVICES FAILURES AND ALMOST EVERYONE INCLUDED NSPCC FAILURES TOO. THERE ARE STILL AT LEAST A FURTHER 40 NAMES TO ADD TO THIS LIST SO BARE WITH ME AS I AM SEEKING THEIR AGES AT DEATH
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 Nicoll67 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
Ryan Hawkins, 4, and stabbed his 14-year-old daughter Donna more than a dozen times. Kirklees council ignored daughters who told them their dad was violent and Christopher Hawkins murdered his son and stabbed his daughter
Alisha Allen aged 5 months, A CATALOGUE of errors by care staff contributed to the death of five-month-old Alisha Allen, a report has found. The helpless youngster died from serious head injuries in January 2007.
Baby A” 10 months old - died last December in Doncaster
Amy Howson aged 16 months died from over 40 injuries including her spine being snapped by her dad James Howson 25
Alfie Goddard aged 3 months old, murdered by his father Craig Goddard, 25, in May
UPDATED
Aaron Gilbert 13-month-old = Swansea Social Services failed to act on child abuse allegations that led to Aaron being murdered in 2005 and who was subjected to a torrent of abuse from Andrew Lloyd, aged 23
Toni Dales, three, died in February 1992.
Toni died from repeated blows to the head despite reports by nursery teachers of unexplained bruising and a plea for help from her mother. No case conference had been called by social workers, who were under pressure. Her case had been formally closed a month before her death.
Shirley Woodcock 1982 3 years Blow or blows to the head
Lucie Gates 1979 2 years Burned to death mother
Maria Mehmedagi 1978 11 months Massive head injury and killed by father
Malcolm Page 1979 aged 14 months old
Stephen Menheniott Jan 1976 19 months old
David Naseby Died aged 4 months
Gavin Mabey aged 2 yrs 5 months
Neil Howlett Died aged 2 yrs 1 month
Darynn Clarke Died aged 3 yrs 1 month
Claire Haddon 1979 Died aged 14 months Extreme violence -
1973 Graham Bagnall Died aged 2 years old (Shropshire)
1978 Karen Spencer Died aged 1 year 4 months (Derbyshire)
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On 28th Mar 2009 at 09:19 PM jill said...
I hold my hands up Daniel,
I apologise for my sweeping views and thank you. My focus was mainly for children being raised by the parent...parents...parent partners and failed to consider those bought up in care where there are obviously failings on behalf of the social services.
I was bought up in the 60’s 70;s when social services were practically non existent and were not paid the vast amounts of money they are now to perform their duty to protect. And you are right they should be accountable especially in cases where they have made the decision to intervene.
On 30th Mar 2009 at 07:51 AM Daniel said...
Thanks for your help Teresa, hopefully with some of the contacts you have given me i’ll finally be able to get some justice, it’s been so much on my mind the last few days especially when reading about all the other horrific cases which i must admit in the past i’ve tried not to read about. But this just makes me more determined to do something. Thanks aswell to D A for your comments and i’m sorry to hear about your tragic and avoidable loss. Teresa has my instant messanger and email address so if you ever want to talk i’m a good listener and can understand the pain, anguish and betrayal that you must feel.
And Jill i didn’t mean it to sound as if i was having a go at you, sorry if it came across that way, but my views on Social Services are very low, although there are some social workers out there that do an excellent job, its just a shame they are few and far between, however my opinion is most are just in it for the money and don’t care about the impacts they have on people and there lives by taking a half arsed approach to their jobs.
On 30th Mar 2009 at 11:17 AM Denise A said...
Hi Daniel,
Thank you, I’d appreciate if Teresa could exchange our emails. I think contact with others who understand all this is good for us. I do believe in time the more of us who speak out, the authorities will not be able to back down. We don’t want the impossible, just what is right and a system that truly does show Every Child Matters!
On 29th May 2009 at 07:19 PM Gemma said...
why are all these professionals ignoring all the warnings?? its sheer stupidity and incompotence that are letting these poor children down xx god bless all their little souls xxx
On 27th Jul 2009 at 07:23 AM carl said...
I know people who have lost 3 kids too this sick uk system,but they have living kids...so my heart and thoughts are with poor parents who’s babies have died at hands of social workers.
I am have been trying 2 get message out too people via my blog,and have managed 2 get press and media interested.
http://bagwandeen81exposesocialservices.blogspot.com/
On 11th Aug 2009 at 06:46 PM t said...
i cant beleive them stupid people who kill kids it is so bloody sad i dont understand
why they do it...do they think its clever or somthing?cause its not its very bad.
On 12th Aug 2009 at 08:27 PM Sterilise stupid peope said...
Why don’t you stop blaming social workers and realise child protection is EVERYONES responsibility. That goes for absent fathers, grannies, grandads.... where were they when these kids were being abused?
The sad fact the system is overloaded we have got too many unsuitable people breeding to get out of having to earn a crust, the government has made a rod for it’s own back, and it’s the poor mites that suffer.
On 30th Aug 2009 at 06:30 AM Angela Kimery said...
My grand daughter was murdered by her Father and step mother june11 2009 we need to try and stop this madness you can Google Carly Sawyer and read her story
On 30th Aug 2009 at 02:45 PM Admin said...
Hi
I have just read the story and my deepest sympathy xxxxx
Let me know if there is anything I can do and happy to highlight Carly’s story on no2abuse
Hugs
On 30th Aug 2009 at 09:03 PM DA said...
Same here, please let us know how to help you and the family.x Google Luigi Askew
On 20th Oct 2009 at 08:54 PM Golden said...
Thank you for this.
Why can life be so sad for children?
On 18th Dec 2009 at 10:46 PM jackie foster said...
read your blog as part of research with my childcare students as i asked them the question “does Every Child Matter” - even I was not aware of how many children are still dying since ECM and the supposed integrated working approach - it does worry me that things are not improving and I know social services and other “professionals” are not achieving the aims of ECM but it also makes me ask -how are we going to ever make a difference? maybe we need to be looking at how we treat abusers & violent people who go on to harm, maybe we need to be asking why people can be so cruel?
it is just so hard to perceive how anyone can harm innocent children and animals but i do feel no amount of laws, red tape and form filling will make a blind bit of difference!
On 9th Jan 2010 at 09:13 PM Louise said...
Oh my GOD!!! Im resarching why the system fail to protect children and in doing so found your site. I am utterly deverstated at reading the information provided. I cant bear to read all of it. Words cannot express how sad I feel for the sick world with live in. How can people do these things and worse others ignore it or cover it up. If I can help in any way to campaign?
On 14th Jan 2010 at 04:41 PM dawnb said...
unbelivable how many deaths does i take to wake up all the people how can help these poor children someone is not doing the job that they get paid for i have 4 girls & my heart bleeds for these poor mites
On 16th Jan 2010 at 03:12 PM peter said...
People arescared because pedophillia has grown so much curtesy of the governments ignorance that we as parents are now so protective it is easy to fear even a good samaritan. One good samaritan in a carcrash recent news (in blogs) is being sued so sadly unless things change like is not going to be the same again
The media along with womens feminist groups have hyped this issue up to staggering propertions and caused everyone to beleive there is a dangerous predator on every street corner, the British public, ever the sheep and brainless T.V educated idiot buy’s it every single time. Do some research and see how the media and quango’s along with so called charaties perpetuate this hysteria to make more propaganda and money as well as political gain.
It’s funny your article here shows that 4 times more children are killed here then soldiers in afghanistan in the same amount of time because o fsocial services yet it is the likes of THEM that help perpetuate this hysteria, so how many “predators” on all our street corners have killed children in that time compared ot social services?
On 25th Jan 2010 at 04:39 PM Bob de Bilde said...
I have reposted this on my blog
http://social-nonservice.blogspot.com/