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24 April 2010.
Editor © Muhammad Haque.
Haringey: Baby P tragedy and the role played by each of the 'authority' 'personnel' again reinforces the need to urgently establish the highest standards of scrutiny and accountability on local councils. The scrutiny to be conducted by rigorous and consistently objectively applied democratic and accountable persons. With an 'elected' 'executive' mayor, such rigorous scrutiny cannot be done. They are physically impossible, let alone being advisable as a ‘way forward’ for any local authority or equivalent power-wielding body, agency or ‘institution’ with crucial powers over the welfare, the safety and the lives of people, especially vulnerable people. So the first lesson of Haringey is to ensure that in Tower Hamlets, the slippage, the overlooking and the negligence do not exist. And to ensure that if there is any scope for these then that scope and any accompanying loopholes must be focussed on and dealt with thus guaranteeing, as far as humanly possible, that the lapses and failures CANNOT occur. VOTE 'NO' to an ‘executive’ ‘elected’ mayor on 6 May 2010 [To be continued]
That the Murdoch SUN can brag and boast about getting its 'readers' to force Ed Balls to sack Haringey Council’s Sharon Shoesmith is a confirmation, once again, of the URGENT need to have accountable local democracy in local Councils that actually follow ethical standards of the highest kind. Had Haringey have that kind and standard of democratic accountability there would be no room for an organ such as the SUN to barge in and brag. There would be FAR LESS chance of the tragedy of Baby P occurring.
[To be continued]
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