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I've had an enough. The award to this incompetent, in charge of a department that oversaw one of the worst episodes of child torture cruelty and the ultimate death of a defenceless child is just too much to take. The audacity of the individual to even put in a claim is beyond belief. I hope you enjoy the spoils you receive from a society that accepts your gross mismanagement and appalling professionalism at the expense of a murdered child. Shame on you Shoesmith.
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Beyond belief
 totally agree with you TMB ,how can she claim the money yet alone be paid it  just sick .. |
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But Ms Shoesmith told the BBC: "This is not a figure I recognise".
She added: "I have made a confidential agreement with Haringey that prevents me giving the actual figures." WTF ? |
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Haringey tax payers should mobilise and withhold their Council Tax until the figure is made public.
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I've had enough of this rubbish casemoney. I am sick to the stomach. Who on earth can make a decision like this. That poor little lad has been **** upon. The people responsible for this have got off scot free as far as I'm concerned. In China they would have taken them all out and shot them and they would have been right to do so and this individual will live very nicely off the proceeds of this little boys death.
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Obscene. The whole worlds values have gone to rat ****. Well said Try My Best.
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She'll be well heeled with that money.
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Cant believe I still work in the private sector. Takes me 25years to earn that
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Sick payment.
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Was used as a convenient scapegoat by Ed Balls who politicised the whole affair.
Deserves every penny. |
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oh dear.
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She doesnt deserve such an amount but they failed to follow procedures when she was dismissed, so i dont blame her for the massive payout even though i couldnt take the cash if i had done my job as badly as she did.
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**** proceedures there is right or wrong in this world. She was paid handsomely to do her job and she failed miserably. Me and you would have been **** off without a thought and she gets this. Appalling. disgusting reprehensible and degrading. The little lad might as well not been recognised at all.
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What hospital chiefs were sacked for staff failing to notice the boy's numerous injuries?
What police chiefs were sacked for not the police not doing their jobs? |
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Not condoning their actions at all and they are as much as responsible as this council halfwit. Don't see them walking away with over half a million and some of their heads should roll for this debacle.
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Because none of them were summarily dismissed without any compensation.
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No they won't be will they. You have seen it with people who can't teach, can't police, can't govern , can't provide health care without scandal, can't look after after our old without abuse. The public sector is not fit for for purpose with low grade workers without a brain cell in their head or a qualification to their name. If you work in the public sector sector in this country expect a very very easy time with no repercussions for total abject performance.
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You see, the problems which led to this tragedy go much deeper.
Ed Balls & Co would like you to believe it was all down to the failings of one person. |
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We all know Ed Balls is a prick but anyboby who gets rewarded for such an absolute gross piece of misconduct in their duties is taking the piss on a monumental scale.
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A small cog in a big wheel.
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Head of Social Services wasn't she.These people know the inside and outside of their pension schemes before putting all their energy into their jobs. A dept run by people who have not even got kids and are on remuneration paid by the taxpayer that far exceeds their abilities or qualifications. If you are in charge of looking out for the welfare of children and have been called back time and time again with suspicions of abuse it does not take somebody with any gumption at all to raise the alarm bells. An absolute disgrace whichever way you wish to dress it up as. We all know the police are as thick as two short planks but heads of dept within councils are supposed to have a limited amount of education. Let's not forget the true victim of this a little boy ignored, forgot about. discarded and left to the mercy of savage individuals who mercilessly took his life while individuals like this toerag sipped on her cabernet and no doubt will no doubt be cracking open the Dom Perignon tonight. Disgusting.
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Perhaps it will serve as a timely reminder to ministers and local authorities to act within the law when discipling an employee. What she did or didn't do is largely irrelevant. The payout reflects the fact that other people with their eye on votes didn't act according to the legislation in place. Whining about her compensation payment makes it more likely to happen again, than less, since it fails to recognise the total incompetence and cowardice of the people who dismissed her in the first place
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What a comment.
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What a comment.
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No one gives a shitt anymore. I wish human life on earth never existed. We are so lucky to enjoy life on earth but the majority of people don't realise it and think nothing about the lives of others, they have no respect, are selfish and have absolutely no conscience whatsoever.
I don't understand why so many nasty things happen in this World. It should not have to be like this.  |
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I think you are right MC noboby gives a **** anymore, until it happens to them or their family.
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What she did or did n't do is palpably not largely irrelevant because a):
knowledge of it would allow us to understand, recognise and assess her own levels of cowardice and incompetence (or not as the case may be) and much more importantly b): what she did or did n't do may have had some bearing on whether the little boy lived or died. Balls messing up and her culpability are not mutually exclusive. The fact that she is to some extent a scapegoat does not automatically make her blameless. |
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I cannot believe that anybody can see this as anything other than an act of grotesque moral obscenity
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you get them mate.
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The compensation package is more than the minimum suggested by senior judge Lord Neuberger in the 2011 ruling.
He gave the opinion Ms Shoesmith was entitled to a minimum of three months' salary plus pensions contributions, [b]which would have amounted to about £33,000.[/b] BBC news website still 33k too much |
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Her incompetence has led to the death of a little who couldnt defend himself.
She walks off with £680k. Do you think she has any remorse or regrets? I doubt it. |
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Incredibly, she is now working towards her PhD on child protection policy. What are the chances she'll reappear somewhere in some trumped up consultancy role with obscene fees...? she really should not be allowed to work in this field ever again.
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Do you think she has any remorse or regrets? I doubt it.
Not one shred - according to undisclosed sources she was holding out for a million. Breathtaking arrogance. |
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did she say she was "over the moon" again?
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Has anyone worked "cobblers" into this yet?
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The way of the World today.
Without commenting on this specific case, scum rises to the top. Bad people and people get rich and good people suffer and are not rewarded. This is why religion was invented in the first plaice. There is no justice on Earth, but you will get pi in the sky when you die. And I don't mean 3.142! These people should be eliminated with extreme prejudice! |
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Ed Balls has managed to pull a lot of wool over many peoples' eyes.
He must be staggered that so many could side with him on anything. |
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Some people on here would have it that people become social workers because they hate children.
Perhaps they try their best and maybe events conspire to let them down. |
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This is still a disgusting award..in my eyes...shows the poor values of our society today
I have had plenty of dealings with social workers, and while you do meet some good ones really genuine people There are also some pretty appalling ones, who deem it their duty is to uphold PC values and nothing else They did not deem baby P as PC enough for help did they...we still do it |
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You know the answer then, become a social worker and show them all how it should be done.
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