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Baby P monster boasts: I brushed the kids’ hair and bought them Easter eggs

BABY Peter's depraved stepdad made a stomach-churning bid to portray himself as a NICE GUY - by bleating in jail he bought the tot an Easter egg.

Sadistic monster Steven Barker insisted as his trial loomed over the 17-month-old's horrific death that he was a caring father figure


The SUN

Haringey 'squanders' £24m on consultants as Baby P suffered

Sharon Shoesmith's department for children spent £23.8 million on external advisers for the borough's school renovation programme between 2005 and 2008.

The money – four times the recommended level - would have been enough to build one new school from scratch, or fund the salaries of 740 social workers for a year.

MPs condemned the “shocking” consultancy bill, which mounted during Ms Shoesmith's tenure. At the same time, Baby Peter was suffering months of abuse from which he eventually died, despite being on Haringey's at-risk register.

ThisisLondon

Baby P council "placed child with terrorist"

The London council lambasted for its handling of the Baby P case was criticised on Friday for placing a foster child in a house where the ringleader of the plot to blow up trans-atlantic airliners lived. Haringey Council put the child into the care of relatives who lived in the same house as Abdulla Ahmed Ali, found guilty on Monday of plotting to destroy planes in mid-air using bombs made from liquid explosives.

STV.tv

Baby P chief's dismissal a 'breach of natural justice'
By John Aston and Sam Marsden, Press Association
Independent

Ofsted ‘destroyed Baby P files’

AN insider has accused Ofsted, the children’s inspectorate, of destroying “smoking gun” documents that could expose an attempted cover-up in the Baby P childcare scandal.

The Ofsted whistleblower alleges the watchdog deleted draft reports from its computers that gave a highly favourable verdict on Haringey, the London council whose failings contributed to Baby P’s death.

The drafts were about to be finalised and released when the tragedy became public. The assessment was then hurriedly scrapped and rewritten to condemn Haringey as inadequate.

TimesonLine

Disgraced Baby P council chief could pocket huge payout after Ofsted 'destroyed draft report'


DailyMail

Boyfriend of Baby P's mother battered by inmate in prison

The boyfriend of Baby P's mother has been attacked in prison by another inmate.

Steven Barker, 33, who is serving his lengthy sentence in top-security Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire, was attacked by another inmate.

It was reported that he was felled with a single punch by the prisoner in an attack yesterday.

Barker received 12 years' imprisonment after being convicted of allowing or causing the death of Baby P - real name Peter Connelly.


DailyMail

Confidential Baby P files left on train

An urgent review has been ordered after a confidential child protection report drawn up by staff at the council involved in the Baby P scandal was left on a train, a spokesman for the authority said today.

The 15-page Haringey Council file, which included details about a boy taken away from his mother over fears he could be abused, was found in a railway carriage in London.

A council worker has been suspended, no doubt on full pay, while the review is carried out.


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