Alexandra Seale, director of social work consultancy Seale Herrera (UK) and a team manager for children in need at Brent council in north London, will launch the first National Assembly for Black Social Care Professionals at a conference next month.
She said: "No one should ever have to stand alone again in the face of professional and personal assassination without knowing there is support available.
"I am convinced that had we had such a network during the Climbie inquiry, the silence we experienced would not have occurred."
She said senior social services managers and medical staff had been treated much more leniently than Arthurworrey. "The social worker on the ground was seen as the most incompetent but people around her had to pay more attention," she added.
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