Quote by kentswingers777
Staffs your comment " how about I suggest another one? Public outcry was so great he offered a sacrificial lamb to turn attention away from his own and the government's failings " ?
What the heck do you base that one on, or is that just a snipe at Ed Balls. As his name suggests, at least he has some balls.
It's based on common sense and experience, who is ultimately responsible for the provision and governance of child protection procedures?
Who paid the price for the 'weapons of mass destruction' deception which directly led to the Iraq invasion and the later 'sexing up of the dossier' revelation?
Google Dr. David Kelly, for sacrificial lamb usage.
No I do not know what his investigation was, but the conclusion is pretty obvious, he sacked her.
The conclusion isn't obvious in anyway, all that is obvious is his decision.
Now if you are really telling me that an educated clever Minister like this guy is, decides at a whim to sack someone who he obviously knew would try for compensation, on the basis of using her as a " sacrificial lamb ", then you really must be up the wrong gum tree.
And you are in cloud cuckoo land if you believe for one second being employed by the government is any less likely to result in unfair dismissal than any other employer. Someone always has to pay the price, as ever it tends to someone just important enough to quieten the pitchfork mob whilst those truly responsible carry on doing the same things that caused the problems in the first place.
What about this one....he was called to Downing Street by the PM, to explain this tragedy with regards to baby P. He is then ordered to hold an in depth investigation into Harringays workings and Shoesmiths involvement.
He then finds out that she and her department have been negligent in this childs then decides to sack her for gross misconduct, of which he is entitled to do?
A reasonable suggestion, as long as she was dismissed in accordance with her contract of employment and more importantly the law, there should'nt be a problem, however, time will tell won't it?
That seems to me much nearer the mark than your suggestion. Still we will wait and see eh? But whatever the outcome she will NEVER work in childrens services again. Who would touch this smug arrogant woman?
So she may well end up getting " blood money " from our ridiculous tribunal system, but her career is finished.
Once again, your hatred and prejudice shows through, if she wins her case it will be because she was treated in a way that was against the law, it won't be blood money, it will be fair compensation for her treatment. Why can't you in your reactionary, knee jerk world see that? The same laws exist to protect everyone, society cannot decide which laws apply to individual cases.
In capitals for the hard of understanding "SHE DID NOT KILL THAT CHILD" Those that did have been tried, convicted and sentenced. The enquiry should take place, in public, by an independent body, not by a government watchdog, the enquiry should take all parts of child protection legislation into account from top to bottom, including, staffing levels, case loads, liason with other agencies, powers and accountability. Then you may get a system that actually works and is not reliant on people working themselves to death to simply 'keep it afloat'.
Yes I know it is the parents that ultimately are to blame but....and here is the but....Social services are there to protect children from further harm, and this child was under Harringays direction, and they failed. Whatever has happened we have a dead child in a grave, that because of incompetence from people at Harringay, could and should have been saved, and that is the worst thing about this whole sorry case.
But is it not realistic to understand no matter what agencies do, no matter how good the procedures, how harsh the penalties and how many people get thrown to the lions, children will still be killed by their parents, you only have to google the right words and it will give you rafts and rafts of pages of horrific stories, disturbing stats and quotes that will chill. It will not stop, no matter what happens, you think lessons have been learnt from this tragedy? You couldn't be more wrong....it's still happening and always will until we take humans out of the loop, for one reason, humans are fallible, we make mistakes, we make bad judgements and we can be decieved.
If you don't agree, i expect should you ever find yourself in a situation like this, you will of course happily fall on your sword, accept your life and career are to be destroyed, your family to suffer, you are to recive death threats and be demonised and hated by people who take no account of the years of good service you have given, but rather sit in ivory towers and spew bile, while all the time never having the guts to do it themselves? All of course without a single murmur of protest......Like hell you would.