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Failure to protect: Victoria Climbie On 25th February 2000 Victoria Climbie was taken to St Mary's Hospital, Paddington where she died from hypothermia with her movement restricted after months of abuse by her carer Marie-Therese Kauao and her partner Carl Manning. Post-mortem conducted after Victoria died showed 128 injuries on her body. Victoria was born in the Ivory Coast and at the age of seven, her father's aunt Kauao offered to take her to France for a better education. Victoria was a substitute for another girl who Kauao had originally intended to take and this explained why the 'daughter’s' name on the French passport used to get into England was Anna. During the first few weeks in England, Kauao met a man named Manning who she then moved in with some weeks later. It is suggested that Victoria’s physical abuse increased after she moved into Manning's flat. Victoria was made to sleep in the bathroom, which was dark and cold and she was repeatedly beaten. Victoria was taken to the hospital by her childminder on the 14th July after the childminder noticed non-accidental injuries on Victoria’s body such as burn marks and bruises. Victoria’s injuries were concerning enough for her to be referred to a paediatric registrar who, after an extensive examination, found many injuries, some of which were non-accidental. As a result Victoria was admitted into hospital and was placed into police protection. The next day however, Dr Ruby Schwartz concluded that Victoria was…

This essay offers to show how the different polices and legislations towards safeguarding children from abuse have evolved today. This essay will explore how the different ideas of policies are set into place and show how different policies go into different directions. From this it will show my knowledge and understandings of different events that have happened and made a development towards society. Showing from a historical perspective it will discuss how different acts have been set into…

Introduction In this assignment I will be evaluating the partnership of the health and social care about the case of Victoria Climbie. I will be explaining the advantages and the disadvantages between working among the partnerships and the improvement. The Victoria Climbié case was a disturbing and horrifying. Victoria Climbié is an 8 years old girl who was murder in London, she was tortured and murdered by her guardians (Kouao and Carl Manning) Her death was directed to a public inquiry…

1. Outline current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures within own UK Home Nation affecting the safeguarding of children and young people. • Working together to safeguard children (2006-2010) • Children act (2004) • Education act(2002) • Disability discrimination act (1995) • Special education needs (SEN) couch practice (2000) • Data protection information handling and sharing 2. Explain child protection within the wider concept of safeguarding…

What is serious case review? In England, the LSCB must undertake a serious case review (SCR) after a child dies and abuse or neglect is believed to be a factor, in addition, serious case reviews are considered in all cases where: a child has sustained a potential life-threatening injury through abuse or neglect, or a child has sustained serious and permanent impairment of health or development through abuse or neglect, or important lessons for inter-agency working could be learnt. What happened?…

Within this assignment, the topic of the Every Child Matters Programme will be discussed. The programme/document was first created in the year of 2003, created as “partly in response to the death of Victoria Climbie” (WIKIPEDIA, 2017). The Victoria Climbie case was a murder case around the child of a young girl called Victoria. Her case revealed that, her death could have been prevented but due to the lack of involvement from social services, hospitals and family friends, the circumstances…