Victoria Climbie Case Study
Victoria Climbie
By Shannon Pidgley
What happened to Victoria Climbie and her abusers? • Victoria was born in Abobo, she left the country with her great aunt Marie
– Therese Kouau a French citizen for an education in France. They travelled and ended up living in London in April 1999. It is unknown when Climbie’s abuse started but it was known that it had got worse when Kouau moved herself and Climbie into Carl Manning’s home who was known to be
Kouau’s boyfriend. During the abuse it has been recognised that Climbie was being burnt with cigarettes, tied up for periods of longer than 24 hours and she was also abused by being hit by bike chains, hammers and wires.
From when the abuse started up until her death there was a varied amount of places …show more content…
that knew about the abuse and had noted the signs. All of the places that had known about the abuse that was being caused by Kouau and Manning towards Climbie had all failed to investigate the abuse further which means little action was taken.
Kouau and Manning where charged with murder and was sentenced with life imprisonment.
Issues or area of public concern raised.
• There was a lot of concern raised in this case, this case was one of the main reasons for the formation of every child matters, the introduction of the children’s act 2004, the creation of contactpoint project, a government database designed to hold information on all children in England and the creation of the office of the children’s commissioner chaired by the children’s commissioner of England.
• There was a lot of public concerned raised about this case as well as there was phone calls, complaints and reports that was filed by the public, by people that knew Climbie and Kouao, this includes family friends and even people that didn’t know them.
• This case was also ignored by a lot of people as well even though that the abuse was recognised by a varied amount of people the chose not to approach it and stay away from the situation.
• The hospitals that Climbie was taken to were not 100% successful with noticing the abuse and did not take further action that was needed, this was taken as a concern and that is why the government database was created so that everyone could see …show more content…
past reports on that child.
An outline of the different points of view regarding the issue or area of public concern raised.
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There was a lot of different points of view on this case, some members of the public were not happy with how this case was handled and think that more could have been done but others think that the hospitals that Climbie was taken to had done nothing wrong as they just went by what they had seen and what other people had written.
Lord Lamming was appalled by the way that this case was handled and he thought that he personally had to do something about it, he realised that the main reason that there was no emergency action taken towards this case was because no one was communicating with anyone, the hospitals thought that the social service would deal with the situation whereas the social services thought that someone else was dealing with it so no one ended up taking action because they was all counting on each other without talking to each other.
However there was certain members on the public for example the preacher at the church that Kouao started to visit noticed that Climbie was getting abused and decided not to do anything about it.
The taxi driver that picked Climbie and Kouao up from the church the day before Climbie died noticed that something was not right and could see that the child was being abused and decided to drive them straight to the hospital, it was too late for Climbie but this shows that a member of the public that didn’t know the girl was still willing to help her.
A description on how the issue or area of public concern has affected service provision and methods of working.
• The public concern has affected the service provision and methods of working a lot in this case as a lot of provisions was changed and more laws was bought out.
• Every child matters was formed because of this case, this was produced to help promote the well-being of children and young people.
• The children’s act 2004 was introduced because of this case, this is an act of the parliament of the united kingdom.
• ContactPoint was also created because of this case this is a government database that held information about all children in England that was under the age of 18.
• All of this was introduced, created or formed because of the Climbie case and how badly it was handled and how people had left it and not taken further action that was required.
A description of how public opinions is affected by issues and areas of concern in either health, social care or children’s and young people’s sectors. • Publics opinion could be affected in this case because some people would have realised that if they do not speak up and report incidents that they have seen then it could lead to a lot worse then just abuse, it could lead to torture or even worse death, this could mean that people think about the health and social care of a child or young person before they think about anything else, this could cause them to maybe one day save a child’s life.
• Other member on the public could look at this case negatively because the people that did speak up about this case and reported it or took Climbie to the hospital was rejected and let down, when they tried to help this little girl nothing was done about it and she just got sent back to Kouao and Connelly who would continue to abuse the child, and when a member of the public decided to take her to the hospital and people decided to pay attention to her then it was too late because her life was taken away from us.
How many recommendations did lord lamming give and what were is main ones?
• Lord Lamming’s report makes 108 recommendations, 46 of these should be implemented within three months, 38 within six months and the rest within two years. The main recommendations proposed by his report are aimed at holding those in senior positions, from the governments down to local services, to account for any failure to protect vulnerable children. This would advise the board on the impact of proposed policies; scrutinise legislation and guidance; advice on implementing the UN convention on child rights; ensure the policy and legislations are implemented at local level; and review serious cases of abuse. Every local authority social services department should establish a committee for children and families, with members from education, housing and social services, the police authority and the local NHS. The local committees would report through regional government offices to the nation agency. The ministerial board would report annually to
parliament.
By Shannon Pidgley
What happened to Victoria Climbie and her abusers? • Victoria was born in Abobo, she left the country with her great aunt Marie
– Therese Kouau a French citizen for an education in France. They travelled and ended up living in London in April 1999. It is unknown when Climbie’s abuse started but it was known that it had got worse when Kouau moved herself and Climbie into Carl Manning’s home who was known to be
Kouau’s boyfriend. During the abuse it has been recognised that Climbie was being burnt with cigarettes, tied up for periods of longer than 24 hours and she was also abused by being hit by bike chains, hammers and wires.
From when the abuse started up until her death there was a varied amount of places …show more content…
that knew about the abuse and had noted the signs. All of the places that had known about the abuse that was being caused by Kouau and Manning towards Climbie had all failed to investigate the abuse further which means little action was taken.
Kouau and Manning where charged with murder and was sentenced with life imprisonment.
Issues or area of public concern raised.
• There was a lot of concern raised in this case, this case was one of the main reasons for the formation of every child matters, the introduction of the children’s act 2004, the creation of contactpoint project, a government database designed to hold information on all children in England and the creation of the office of the children’s commissioner chaired by the children’s commissioner of England.
• There was a lot of public concerned raised about this case as well as there was phone calls, complaints and reports that was filed by the public, by people that knew Climbie and Kouao, this includes family friends and even people that didn’t know them.
• This case was also ignored by a lot of people as well even though that the abuse was recognised by a varied amount of people the chose not to approach it and stay away from the situation.
• The hospitals that Climbie was taken to were not 100% successful with noticing the abuse and did not take further action that was needed, this was taken as a concern and that is why the government database was created so that everyone could see …show more content…
past reports on that child.
An outline of the different points of view regarding the issue or area of public concern raised.
•
•
•
•
There was a lot of different points of view on this case, some members of the public were not happy with how this case was handled and think that more could have been done but others think that the hospitals that Climbie was taken to had done nothing wrong as they just went by what they had seen and what other people had written.
Lord Lamming was appalled by the way that this case was handled and he thought that he personally had to do something about it, he realised that the main reason that there was no emergency action taken towards this case was because no one was communicating with anyone, the hospitals thought that the social service would deal with the situation whereas the social services thought that someone else was dealing with it so no one ended up taking action because they was all counting on each other without talking to each other.
However there was certain members on the public for example the preacher at the church that Kouao started to visit noticed that Climbie was getting abused and decided not to do anything about it.
The taxi driver that picked Climbie and Kouao up from the church the day before Climbie died noticed that something was not right and could see that the child was being abused and decided to drive them straight to the hospital, it was too late for Climbie but this shows that a member of the public that didn’t know the girl was still willing to help her.
A description on how the issue or area of public concern has affected service provision and methods of working.
• The public concern has affected the service provision and methods of working a lot in this case as a lot of provisions was changed and more laws was bought out.
• Every child matters was formed because of this case, this was produced to help promote the well-being of children and young people.
• The children’s act 2004 was introduced because of this case, this is an act of the parliament of the united kingdom.
• ContactPoint was also created because of this case this is a government database that held information about all children in England that was under the age of 18.
• All of this was introduced, created or formed because of the Climbie case and how badly it was handled and how people had left it and not taken further action that was required.
A description of how public opinions is affected by issues and areas of concern in either health, social care or children’s and young people’s sectors. • Publics opinion could be affected in this case because some people would have realised that if they do not speak up and report incidents that they have seen then it could lead to a lot worse then just abuse, it could lead to torture or even worse death, this could mean that people think about the health and social care of a child or young person before they think about anything else, this could cause them to maybe one day save a child’s life.
• Other member on the public could look at this case negatively because the people that did speak up about this case and reported it or took Climbie to the hospital was rejected and let down, when they tried to help this little girl nothing was done about it and she just got sent back to Kouao and Connelly who would continue to abuse the child, and when a member of the public decided to take her to the hospital and people decided to pay attention to her then it was too late because her life was taken away from us.
How many recommendations did lord lamming give and what were is main ones?
• Lord Lamming’s report makes 108 recommendations, 46 of these should be implemented within three months, 38 within six months and the rest within two years. The main recommendations proposed by his report are aimed at holding those in senior positions, from the governments down to local services, to account for any failure to protect vulnerable children. This would advise the board on the impact of proposed policies; scrutinise legislation and guidance; advice on implementing the UN convention on child rights; ensure the policy and legislations are implemented at local level; and review serious cases of abuse. Every local authority social services department should establish a committee for children and families, with members from education, housing and social services, the police authority and the local NHS. The local committees would report through regional government offices to the nation agency. The ministerial board would report annually to
parliament.