Plenty has been written about the terrible life and death of Baby P, and I will not add to it here. But it raises some wider issues about working with babies and young children.
Not long ago, I was talking to a Children's Centre head who wondered if she was the only one who often went home worrying about the safety of children in contact with the Centre. I know she is not. It is difficult enough being a nursery school headteacher; but with extended services and a large programme of outreach and home visiting, all of us know a little bit about a lot of vulnerable children and families. And it can be very worrying. This anxiety is made worse by the tone of the public discussion, the Sun petitions and corner-shop conversations which are more like show trials than a serious consideration of how we should undertake the difficult work of protecting children.
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