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The Lancet calls for National Child Protection Commission
Medical journal says recent decisions have made a "mockery" of child protection

The Lancet has published an editorial calling for a commission into child protection headed by the Children's Commissioner. The respected medical journal says that the second serious case review on the Baby Peter case, the High Court decision in the Southall case and the Irish report into child abuse in the Catholic Church have

"made a mockery of child protection in the UK and Ireland by further adding to the confusion around how best to protect vulnerable children."

and that

"it is incomprehensible that on the same day as the second review was released and the UK Secretary of State for Children, Schools, and Families, Ed Balls, said that all professionals involved in child protection should act to put the child first and not be deceived by parents, the High Court upheld the GMC's decision to strike the paediatrician and child protection expert, Dr David Southall, off the medical register for doing just that."

It therefore calls for a "concerted effort to change the current, clearly inadequate system" by creating a National Child Protection Commission to review all the evidence emerging from national and international data.

The editorial was published in the same week that the Attorney General announced that she may consider appealing against the sentences given to those involved in the death of Baby Peter as they may be too lenient. Baby Peter's mother was sentenced to an indefinite jail term for causing or allowing the toddler's death and must serve at least five years, her boyfriend was jailed for twelve years for causing the death and for life for raping a two-year-old girl and their lodger was jailed indefinitely but must serve at least three years.

The full text of the editorial in The Lancet is available free of charge on their site but you will need to register to access the piece.


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Keywords:child protection

Oh I do wish they'd all stop moaning.

Basically there's no transparency.
The system is an utter balls up.

It won't improve while crackpots are allowed to practise and find witchcraft, satanic rituals, low iq's, high iq's, or may harm policies... without evidence.

How can it improve? there's not an ounce of critical thinking taking place within the SS.

Parents get more angry at the miscarriages of justice.
Europe is getting more angry at mothers fleeing the UK.
The press will hopefully continue to publish the trauma's of parents.

The tail is wagging the dog.

The SS are snatching children without evidence. Thats not a justice system. It's not a system, let alone justice.
Public scrunity of these idiots would sort out the problems.

I do wish the doctors, and those in child protection would stop whining and accept scrunity of their decisions. If they make an error, the kids shouldn't have to serve almost 2 life sentences and get to 18 years before these mistakes are corrected.