Haringey is an unfortunate protagonist in the story of Every Child Matters: Victoria Climbie's murder there set the reforms in motion before failures to intervene in Peter Connelly's case called them so publicly into question. The latter's death prompted sackings, a "devastating" verdict on safeguarding and Lord Laming's review of child protection, which called for a "step change" in recruitment, training and supervision of frontline staff.
If confidence was shot to pieces in children's social care in general, you can magnify that tenfold for Haringey. In July, Ofsted found only limited progress in tracking care cases and in its capacity for further improvement.
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