Haringey's MP has called for council resignantions after the borough's lead councillor for children and young people apologised for failure to protect the child known as Baby P, who died in the borough 15 months ago following months of abuse.

Read: Calls for Haringey resignations after apology comes "too late".

Child protection is a high risk area. The risks can be reduced but never eliminated. The real issue here is that we live in a society which produces evil and wicked people and Social Workers are made to be responsible for their evil deeds. Who in their right mind would choose this career?

What is really worrying is that a period of 15 months seems to have elapsed during which there has been "endless discussion" but apparently little action. Surely some-one at DCSF must also have known that there was a serious problem in Haringey \(i.e. some information about the Baby P case) prior to the publication of the Summary SCR Report? Surely a local authority in this position should have been able to draw on national resources for help in understanding what went wrong and how to reduce the risk of it happening again? It is completely unacceptable that learning from fatal outcomes is so slow and so protracted. We need to develop systems and cultures which promote learning from mistakes, not suppress it. Perhaps more emphasis on improvement and learning and less emphasis on blaming and shaming would be a starting point? After an air crash there is a prolonged investigation of the causes, but if during the course of that investigation it is found that a particular component or action contributed to the disaster, airlines and manufacturers are immediately informed so that urgent action can be taken to avoid a repeat. Child protection work needs to be supported by similar arrangements.

15 months? Have the people who allowed this to happen, managed to hang on to their jobs for 15 months already since this horrendous cruelty was overseen? The term 'accountability' seems to be utterly meaningless under such circumstances. A whistleblowing Social Worker tried - sometime age - to get the stupid mis application of the 'protection agencies' stopped. No-one listened,. Those 'professionals' who were involved in this total dereliction of duty, need - as a matter of urgency - to be making Criminal Court appearances, to give a full account of their actions/non-actions - and jail should be the end result if they have not complied with the law. In that I would certainly include Ms Shoesmith. Any fudging of the issue will only act as an encouragement to further lack of accountability.

I have to say that as a professional person who works in a childrens home I am absolutely appalled at Haringay in failing to carry out their duty of care to this little boy. It does`nt bear thinking about what he went through at the hands of people who should have loved & nurtured him. In my opinion the sooner that we have a more substantial punishment for these people the better. As for Harringay they need to root out the people who are not protecting vulnerable children. Has nothing been learned from Lord Laming`s enqiry into Victoria Climbie, it would seem not. How dare the leader of the council apologise for not looking after the little lad. In my opinion that is an insult to the lad.