Ministers told of threat to Baby P
Government ministers were warned of the threat to Baby P six months before she died by a concerned social worker turned whistleblower, it has emerged.
Lawyers for Nevres Kemal wrote to the then Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt, junior health ministers Rosie Winterton and Ivan Lewis, Tottenham MP David Lammy, and social work watchdog the Commission for Social Care Inspection, alleging that Haringey social services department was not following child protection procedures in February 2007.
Kemal acted as she believed vulnerable children were being put back into the care of abusive parents. She was later suspended and left her £34,000-a-year job with the council. An employment tribunal found that she had been singled out because she was a whistleblower.
Kemal, 43, had originally complained over the handling of a case in Haringey in 2004. The Baby P case happened seven years after eight-year-old Victoria Climbie was tortured to death by her great-aunt in the same London borough. An inquiry into her death was highly critical of Haringey care workers.
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