Episode 1: Victoria Climbié — The Full Case File

In eleven months, Victoria Climbié had twelve separate, documented contacts with social services, police, and hospitals across three London boroughs. She died in February 2000, aged 8, with 128 injuries on her body. This episode goes well beyond the headlines: her full timeline, the Old Bailey trial and the judge's own sentencing remarks, the year-long public inquiry, and the story of Lisa Arthurworrey, the 19-month-qualified social worker who was sacked in the aftermath and later cleared by two separate tribunals.

We also cover what doesn't usually make it into shorter retellings of this case: the private fostering law that never applied because the whole arrangement was built on a lie, the contested question of whether fear of being seen as racially insensitive slowed intervention, an ...