These children already left to die in 09 by social service workers

Three children died after a catalog of errors by social workers, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose.


In cases that echo the mistakes made during the short life of Baby P, the children were left in danger despite clear warning signs that they were at risk.


Repeated opportunities were missed to intervene to save the children, whose families were regularly visited by social workers, police and health workers.


Despite the blunders, no measures were taken to discipline any of the professionals involved.


Critics said the official reports into the cases, uncovered by The Sunday Telegraph, showed that the current child protection system was not working.


The three serious case reviews disclose:

A three-year-old girl died after taking her mother's drugs.
Just three weeks earlier social workers had considered ? and then decided against ? putting her into care

A 14-month-old baby was killed by a cocktail of drugs, months after social workers were warned her mother was taking crack cocaine and heroin

A baby of seven months died in bed with her mother, whose alcohol intake contributed to the death. Social workers who previously found the mother drunk in bed with the infant had asked her to sign an agreement to tackle her drinking, which she signed after consuming eight cans of beer.


In the case of the three-year-old, who was on the child protection register in Reading, just 25 of 84 attempts by social workers to visit her family were successful.


Despite her parents' refusal to co-operate with social services, action was not taken to protect Trae-Bleu Layne, who died of a methadone overdose.


Even when her parents took her on a violent raid on local shops - which ended with a high-speed chase by police, who found the child in the back of a car next to drug-taking paraphernalia - authorities failed to step in to protect the infant.


The investigation demonstrates that the critical errors made by social services in the case of Baby P, whose abuse and death was not prevented by 60 visits from Haringey's social workers, are being replicated across the country.


The cases raise fundamental questions about the competence of front line staff working in child protection, and the leadership of those running services.


Michael Gove, the shadow children's secretary, described the cases as "appalling" evidence that the current child protection system had failed.


He said: "These particular cases seem quite appalling: they raise profound questions about the Government's claim that we have got the right systems in place.
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The NSPCC warned that countless more children would die as a result of abuse if lessons from investigations into the deaths were not heeded.


Wes Cuell, the charity's director of children's services, said: "There are many children who are alive today who will die in equally tragic circumstances if we continue to fail to learn the lessons from these cases.
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He said serious case reviews by agencies responsible for child protection raised the same problems repeatedly: poor judgment by front line staff in health, police and social work; and weak supervision by managers in charge of child protection.









Samauri Mayes
2-year-old
January 2, 2009
Greenville,South Carolina

Lucas Isaac Polanco
2-year-old
January 4,2009
Milton-Freewater,Oregon

Seth Ireland
10-year-old
January 6, 2009
Fresno,California

Alexis "Lexie" Glover
13-year-old
January 7,2009
Manassas,Virginia

Tatina Riveria
8-month-old
January 9,2009
Omaha,Nebraska

Alex Angulo
4-year-old
January 11,2009
Chicago,Illinois

Foster Girl
4-year-old
January 13,2009
Edmonton,Canada

Ania Duncan
6-month-old
January 14,2009
Cleveland, Ohio

Karina Moore
2-year-old
January 16, 2009
Post Falls,Idaho

Guadalupe Correa
3-year-old
January 20, 2009
Stockton,California

Joseph M.
Schoolfield
3-year-old
January 24,2009
Carlyle, Illinois

Iven Carlos
2-month-old
January 27,2009
Chicago,Illinois

Darcey Freeman
4-year-old
January 29,2009
Melbourne,Australia

February

Hope Richard
9-year-old
February 3,2009
Manitoba,Canada

Miraculious Fuentes
Manriquez
3-year-old
February 3,2009
Amarillo,Texas

Aquan Lewis
10-year-old
February 4,2009
Evanston,Illinois

Angel DeHerrera
4-year-old
February 6, 2009
Colorado Springs,CO

Esmond Ross
7-year-old
February 7, 2009
Kansas City,Missouri

Foster Girl
10-year-old
February 7,2009
Rockhampton, Australia

Abigail Johnson
4-month-old
February 9, 2009
Evansville,Indiana

Tendral Meytok
Gurung
9-month-old
February 10, 2009
Virginia Beach,Florida

Kaylan Broumley
3-year-old
February 12,2009
Nacogdoches,Texas

Thomas Joel Villa
7-month-old
February 12,2009
Canyon,Texas

Isiah Martin
2-year-old
February 13,2008
Detroit,Michigan

Jeremiah Ray Swafford
2-year-old
February 13,2009
Shelby,North Carolina

Joshua Pinckney
2-year-old
February 13,2009
Cumming,Georgia

Jyhiem Adam Bacon
2-month-old
February 14, 2009
Salisbury,North Carolina

Darlene Diles
35-day-old
February 17,2009
Dallas,Texas