Hi i wrote a little on this case and how it has effected partnership working within safeguarding.
Professionals need to work effectively in partnership with other agencies and organisations this is vital and unfortunately the importance of this has come about from professionals failing to protect Victoria Climbie who sadly died in 2000. Her death was preventable as doctors, police and social workers that came into contact with her had concerns, however the doctors discharged her back into her abusers care and presumed that the social services would investigate. The social services were best described as incompetent and Victoria’s social worker felt unsupported by her supervisor and described her colleagues as conflicted. The police also failed to fully investigate Victoria’s home although close family members and Victoria’s childminder raised their concerns. Following this case lessons were learnt and recommendations were put into place to prevent anymore tragedies like this happening, where successful partnership working for safeguarding should have stepped in a lot earlier to avoid this abuse taking place.
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