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Failings found over baby's murder

This is the other side (see link) quoting from the article:
Social workers failed properly to follow up child abuse allegations about a baby from Swansea who was later murdered, a report has found.
The cases that cause great concern like this one that involve clear physical harm to a child. On one hand we have the system intervening because an "expert" states that there may be emotional abuse in 5 years time. On the other hand the system fails to intervene in an obvious case of a baby being hurt badly.

The Climbie inquiry found that the time spent on Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy prevented people from dealing with the more serious case.

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