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BIG INTERVIEW: Social care needs scrutiny - Lord Laming, chairman of the Victoria Climbie Inquiry

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After spending two years investigating Victoria's death, Lord Laming has produced 108 recommendations that push for wider accountability throughout all services involving children and young people.

The number of Lord Laming's recommendations that are taken on board will not be known until a green paper consultation document called Children At Risk is published.

"Society must value its young people, recognise they aren't simply the appendages of the adults in their lives and that they need to be respected," says Laming. "We need to break down any sense of alienation and separation.

We need to value them, be seen to value them and help them feel that society works for them and that they have a contribution to make."

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