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Still, they were just one more set of strangers passing through a disconnected and transient community. That is the often vibrant story of London boroughs like Haringey, but it is also what makes such places ideal for those who want to escape attention. And Barker and Owen had a lot to escape from. Initially they hid from social services and their histories of crime, familial violence, arson and drug addiction, but by the time they fled Tottenham in August 2007, they were running away from the horrific death of 17-month-old Peter, the boy who would become known as Baby P. Owen moved from south London into the house in Tottenham because he was fleeing the family of his 15-year-old girlfriend. He took three of his children with him. This is one of the many bewildering aspects of the events two years ago. If he was on the run with an underage partner, why would he take his children out of school and drag them along? It's not as if space wasn't already cramped in Tottenham, and they all had to be concealed from the authorities. Yet while grave and egregious mistakes were made, the story of Baby P raises some vital questions about what we have come to expect of state agencies. Is the state subsidising the destructive lives of people who are themselves the offspring of failed state intervention, thereby creating an accelerating cycle of dysfunction and dependence? Should more children be removed from their families, and if so at what stage? I didn't think much of him," says O'Connor, "and I still don't. But he was a good provider. She had everything within reason. He did three shifts and he cooked, cleaned and washed her clothes. He even gave her a lovely home, even though she got it through the council. And he wasn't violent or anything like that."

February Nevres Kemal, a former Haringey social worker, writes to the Department of Health with concerns. The child protection officer thinks that training needs to be improved, with much more emphasis on reality and practice-based learning, and lengthy placements in the sector. Better pay is a given, she says, but equally important, there needs to be personality testing. You have to have basic common sense, be culturally aware, intelligent but streetwise, and strong, because you have to challenge. You're dealing with the absolute lows and highs of society, child abusers and consultant paediatricians, so you have to be able to manage both ends of that." Features include vegetable and flower patches, pull-out table and stools for mealtimes, bed and pillow and convertible roof.

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Cox died five years later in his son's arms. "He tried to give his father the kiss of life," says O'Connor. "He went a bit haywire after that, which is normal." The boy came to live with her, but it was a difficult reunion. "He tried to strangle me when he was 11. But that was frustration on his part." It later emerged that Connelly's real father was convicted of a sexual assault on a child in the 1970s. It could be said, therefore, that, in Connelly's case, child abuse was both learnt and inherited. In most London boroughs, plenty of days pass without a child being referred for protection. But in Haringey, according to the social worker, there would be two or three child protection referrals each day, which severely drained resources. "It would take out the whole team of 20 social workers." If indeed the best staff have now lost their jobs, what does that say about those who remain at Haringey? In the rush to purge the borough of those involved in the Baby P case, has the level of child protection competence been lowered?

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