Episode 2: Baby P — The Full Case...
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Episode 2: Baby P — The Full Case File
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Child Protection Files: Real Cases, Real System Failures by Jay Gill

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Peter Connelly, known publicly as "Baby P," was seen sixty times in eight months by social workers, doctors, and police, in the same London borough that had already been through the Victoria Climbié case seven years earlier. He died in August 2007, aged 17 months, from sustained abuse that was actively concealed from every professional monitoring his case.

This episode goes deep on two things: the full Old Bailey trial, why the murder charges were reduced to "causing or allowing," Judge Stephen Kramer's sentencing remarks in full, and the parallel case where Steven Barker was convicted of raping a separate child also on Haringey's child protection register, and the child protection practice side that rarely gets covered properly: the GP excluded from the case conference, Steven Barker's presence in the household going completely unvetted, a ... 

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