Four senior consultants from the hospital who worked at the clinic in Haringey signed a joint letter to their managers in 2006 warning of the “very high risk” of serious failings in child protection — a year before the Baby P tragedy.
But an Evening Standard investigation has found that managers ignored the alert. NHS London has now launched an official inquiry...
...By the time Baby P came to the clinic, the following year, none of the four senior consultants remained.
He was instead seen by a locum who missed the fact that he had a broken back and he died two days later.
A post-mortem found that the boy (Baby Peter) had eight broken ribs, severe lacerations to his head, a tip of a finger missing, broken teeth, missing nails, and scores of bruises, cuts and abrasions, including a deep tear to his left ear lobe, which had been pulled away from his head...
