Does that include the councillors, and the social workers and everyone else that helped to murder Baby P? When you say those scumbags, as I say I hope that includes these people as well, because they did nothing really to help baby P

I can´t believe the so-called Social Workers are still in their jobs. This isn´t the first time they have allowed kids to die while they boast about the wonderful work they do on ego trips. These bastards involved in this case need charged with murder, maybe then they would do the job their paid to do.

With all due respect, go and fuck yourselves.

I'm a social worker. I'm bloody good at my job and take pride in what I do and the difference it can sometimes make in people's lives. I try to remain optimistic and focussed despite the fact that my colleagues and I are the whipping boys of every half-arsed know-nothing with a bone to pick and a shitload of ignorance to display.

Calling us 'murderers' and 'scum' and 'bastards' isn't going to make us do our jobs better. It's just going to contribute to an increasingly hostile environment where our jobs become harder and harder. And that's on top of the cuts in resources, understaffing, high caseloads, unpaid extra hours and so on.

I'd like to take people like you two out on the job with me for a week. Then we'd see if you still felt good about spouting shit about social workers on a world-wide forum.

Baby P's short life and death were tragic and horrible. Haringey Council clearly needs to make serious changes to its policies and practices. Extra funding, as always is desperately needed.

What's not needed is blanket abuse of social workers.