Murder of Victoria Climbié

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 and created major changes in child protection policies in the UK. During the a few days before her death, Victoria would be suffering abuse at the hands of Carl Manning (Boyfriend of Victoria aunt, Kouao) . That abuse would lead to her torture and death.…

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…

Working together to safeguard children (2006-2010) A Guide to Inter-agency Working to Safeguard and Promote the Welfare of Children. It sets out how organisations, agencies and individuals working with children should work together to safeguard and promote their welfare in accordance with the Children Act 1989 and Children Act 2004. From September 2009 a named member of the Senior Management Team (Head teacher) will have the responsibility of ensuring that the school does its best to…

and Children Act. As the meaning of ‘harm’ was imposed to people affected by witnessing domestic violence, and now includes ‘impairment suffered from seeing or hearing the ill treatment of another’ (HM Government, 2006). In 1997 when Tony Blair and the new labour government undertook changes, it still showed developments within child care provisions. However in 2000 there was a highlight concern which took place; the horrific death of Victoria Climbie, this grew awareness to the public and…

Services. The rate of abuse of children especially in the United Kingdom has grown to point that is now a national threat, one would have thought that the case of Victoria Climbie in 2000, and the case of baby Peter in 2007, would have attracted social services to the major cause of child abuse and try to stop it, but that is not the case today, and the situation is getting worse. The main purpose for this project is to understand and show why social services have failed to protect…

Social Workers have many different cases at a time. There can be times where they miss abuse. Gabriel Fernandez a young boy constantly abused and crying out for help. A judge said, "red flags were everywhere — the injuries, the absences from school, the calls Gabriel’s teacher made to child protective services — and that social workers should have seen them. "There was a case in California where an 8-year-old boy had marks all over him going to school and nothing was done after he had asked for…

• Adoption & children Act 2002- this act is in addition to the children's Act 1989 it clarifies the meaning of harm to be included as a result of someone harming another person mainly a child- domestic violence. • Every child matters 2003- is a green paper which was published when Victoria Climbie died. This is for people working in children's services providing more effective and accessible services for the needs of the children that are under 5. (be healthy, be safe, enjoy & achieve, positive…