Child Protection Committee chairman Professor June Thoburn THE case of a family of three children said to be the ‘most damaged in Jersey’ is being urgently reviewed by politicians, including new Health and Social Services Minister Anne Pryke.It has been claimed that the children, whose specialist treatment in the UK the States are being asked to fund, suffered years of sexual abuse and neglect because the authorities failed to take them into care despite being warned that they were at risk.
The review, which is being chaired jointly by Jersey Child Protection Committee chairman Professor June Thoburn and Deputy Medical Officer of Health Dr Susan Turnbull, is now under way in response to allegations of multi-agency failures by the States. It is due to be completed in September.
In a related proposition calling for £700,000 a year to be made available for their specialist treatment in the UK. Deputy Paul Le Claire says of the children of ‘Family X’: ‘They now rank as the most damaged children in Jersey and are in the top tier of all such children in England.’
Article posted on 7th May, 2009 - 3.00pm
Children ‘failed by the system’
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Child Protection Committee chairman Professor June Thoburn
THE case of a family of three children said to be the ‘most damaged in Jersey’ is being urgently reviewed by politicians, including new Health and Social Services Minister Anne Pryke.
It has been claimed that the children, whose specialist treatment in the UK the States are being asked to fund, suffered years of sexual abuse and neglect because the authorities failed to take them into care despite being warned that they were at risk.
The review, which is being chaired jointly by Jersey Child Protection Committee chairman Professor June Thoburn and Deputy Medical Officer of Health Dr Susan Turnbull, is now under way in response to allegations of multi-agency failures by the States. It is due to be completed in September.
In a related proposition calling for £700,000 a year to be made available for their specialist treatment in the UK. Deputy Paul Le Claire says of the children of ‘Family X’: ‘They now rank as the most damaged children in Jersey and are in the top tier of all such children in England.’
Article posted on 7th May, 2009 - 3.00pm