Chair: We should have done more to keep Finley safe
The independent chair of Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Partnership apologises to the family of Finley Boden after a report concluded the toddler should have been “one of the most protected children” in the area. Steve Atkinson says, “we should and could have done more to keep him safe” and admits “we accept the report in full”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Children in Derbyshire are as safe as we can make them and that's been endorsed very recently by the
00:06 the Ofsted inspection of the children's services department in the county. But I do need to
00:16 offer condolences to Finlay's family and an apology to them for what happened to Finlay.
00:24 We could and should have done more to to keep him safe. Having said that, it was his parents who
00:31 were responsible for Finlay's death, not any worker. But we do need to, we owe it to Finlay
00:38 to follow up this report, which is why we had it in the first place. We owe it to Finlay to make
00:45 sure that the recommendations in the report are followed through fully because we accept the
00:51 the report in full.