From Jasmine Beckford to Daniel Pelka: a history of chaos and calumny
In three decades of child protection, an alliance between state and children has been compromised by the compliance culture.
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[…] the top. As Beatrix Campbell has reminded us more than once, in the space of just a few years after Louis Blom Cooper’s ‘though shalt not not intervene’ ultimatum in the wake of Jasmine Beckford, policy retreated and eschewed interventionism. Since the […]