Murder of Victoria Climbié

Lord Laming's Victoria Climbié Inquiry, reported January 28, 2003 Laming's report ran to some 400 pages and made 108 recommendations. Its central finding, as the Health Secretary put it to MPs, was that this was not a failing on the part of any one service: each agency assumed another was meeting the child's needs. The government answered through its green paper on children, Every Child Matters, and then the Children Act 2004. That Act created a Children's Commissioner for England, required every council to set up a Local Safeguarding Children Board and gave each area a director of children's services. Much of how child protection agencies are made to work together today starts here.