UK Officially Debuts Children Database Nearly A Decade After Victoria Climbié's Murder

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The Laming report published back in February 2003 underlines other shortcomings in the failure of a system that is supposed to be caring for the most vulnerable members of the community. Yet, just as in the case of Baby P, it seems that the failure to care was systemic with senior management particularly oblivious to the needs of front line workers. Will Contactpoint change this? Probably not.

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