Ed Balls statement following investigation into Baby P death

Ed Balls statement following investigation into Baby P death; Ed Balls MP statement continued SOT And in the mean time, if I am not satisfied that there is sufficient progress, I will not hesitate to intervene again. But I believe that I need to go further now to ensure that all the Inspectors' findings are acted upon across all local agencies and that all the lessons of the Baby P case are learned and acted upon. It is unacceptable that the Serious Case Review into this tragic and terrible case has been found inadequate. So I am also today directing Haringey Council, under Section 7A of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970, to appoint a new and independent Chair of its Local Safeguarding Children Board. Mr Graham Badman, who last week retired as Director of Children's Services in Kent, has agreed to take up this post. He will start work this week. I have asked him immediately to begin a new Serious Case Review into the death of Baby P. He will submit the new Serious Case Review to Ofsted by the end of February for evaluation. And he will publish the executive summary of the new Serious Case Review - which must provide a comprehensive and fair summary of the full Serious Case Review - by the end of March. This new Serious Case Review will require the commissioning of new management reports from - and the co-operation of - all agencies involved in child protection in Haringey. And all agencies must also now implement the wider recommendations made in the Inspectors' report. The Health Secretary is therefore announcing this afternoon that the Healthcare Commission will undertake an analysis of whether national child protection standards are being applied as vigorously as they should be, while the Chief Executive of the NHS will also ask all NHS organisations to review their child protection arrangements. And I am pleased that both the Health Secretary and Police Minister Vernon Coaker are also making it clear that the Healt...