Christine Gilbert is forced to confess to the EXISTENCE of a forcefully active culture of falsification within local Councils....

By © Muhammad Haque
1600 Hrs GMT London saturday 6 december 2008



Christine Gilbert is forced to confess to the EXISTENCE of a forcefully active culture of falsification within the local Councils, typified on this occasion by the local council of Haringey.

She says so, according to the following report as published by Times online today [London Saturday 6 December 2008]:

I don’t know of ANY organ of the so-called mainstream British media - or of the so-called mainstream media in Britain - that paid [or is paying even now, two years on] ANY attention to the warning that I published on Indymedia to Tony Blair in 2006 asking him to not go ahead with the appointment of Gilbert to OFSTED.….

It is not obvious from the indications available so far that the MPs - who are staging THEIR own spin around OFSTED next week over the ‘outrage and concern’ that have been expressed after the tragedy of the Baby P began to become publicised - will make any signifiant progress away from the culture of entrenched corruption and self-serving parroting that has for DECADES in Britain dominated the proceedings of so many ‘political’ platforms allegedly acting for accountable public services.

Those forums are as corrupt and or as embarrassingly antidemocratic and thus rendered morally near bankrupt and constitutionally irrelevant as the PARTISAN front bench and the back bench [except two male and a female MPs] on the Brown fronted Blair side exhibited in the UK Houses of Parliament this past week on the matter of the arrest of an MP

Why?

One key reason is the agenda being propelled via the likes of the Guardian news organisation including its online spinning apparatus linked to the perpetuation of the culture of local council bureaucracies.... It is already apparent that there is a ‘salvage Christine `Gilbert’ operation afoot.…. And a deeper lobbying of the MPs is even more ferociously on, I can observe!


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From Times Online
December 6, 2008
Ofsted claims part responsibility for Baby P's death
Simon Alford
The head of Ofsted has admitted the organisation needs to take some responsibility over the death of Baby P in Haringey and vowed she was "not washing her hands of it".

The 17-month-old boy died in August last year after months of abuse. His mother, her boyfriend and a third man Jason Owen have been convicted of causing or allowing his death.

The toddler was on the child protection register and the family had received numerous visits from social services, in north London, before he died.

In an inspection published in December of last year Ofsted, the independent inspector of children's services, ranked the council's work as "good".

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Today Christine Gilbert, the chief inspector for education, children's services and skills, admitted mistakes had been made.

“I think if the grades that we gave last December gave a false assurance we have to take some responsibility for that," she said in an interview with The Guardian.

"That’s one of the reasons that I’m saying we’re looking again at our proposal (to reform inspection). We need to do all we can from our position so I’m not washing my hands of it.”

Ms Gilbert said Haringey Council may have been "hiding behind" false data to alter the ratings of child protection register system.

She also raised concerns that there may be other local authorities that also supplied incorrect information.

In a report published last week in to the death of Baby P Ms Gilbert said: “This inspection has identified serious concerns in relation to the safeguarding of children and young people in Haringey which need to be addressed as a priority.

"Haringey needs to take urgent action to ensure vulnerable children are properly protected.”