Tia Rigg, a 12-year-old murdered in Manchester, was failed by Salford social services in part because child protection thresholds in the council were too high, according to a serious case review. Tia was 12 when John Madon, 38, brought her to his home on the pretence of wanting her to babysit his daughter. Madon killed Tia and then phoned police to tell them he had done so. Tia had been the subject of a child protection plan in a number of local authorities and had suffered abuse and neglect. "There were indications throughout this SCR that thresholds for robust child protection interventions were too high and that decision-making about levels of risk was poor," the report said. The case exhibited a number of similar issues that have also emerged from Community Care's survey of frontline workers about child protection thresholds. In the survey social workers warned they are being forced by managers to take high risk decisions about children at significant risk of harm because...
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