Child protection overhaul

The government should act to change the culture of child care proceedings in order to prevent further tragedies in the wake of the Baby P case, according to the Association of Lawyers for Children. Piers Pressdee, co-chairman of the association says: “Whatever the failings locally, the fault-lines in the area of child protection go to the very top of national government, which discourages the use of care proceedings that it views as too costly, and which has undermined so many parts of the system that should have been there to protect Baby P.”