Social Worker Suspended

In the news this week A Social Worker from Fife in Scotland has been suspended pending an investigation in to their actions over the death of two children

Social worker who handled Liam Fee and Mikaeel Kular cases suspended pending council probe

06:26, 18 Jun 2016 Updated 09:43, 18 Jun 2016 By James Moncur

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/social-worker-who-handled-liam-8222615

A whistleblower revealed the bombshell news as it emerged social workers had a chance to save Liam the day before his death

 

A social worker who was monitoring Liam Fee before his murder and also worked with Mikaeel Kular prior to his death has been suspended.

The bombshell news was revealed by a Fife Council whistleblower, who highlighted more details of the authority’s controversial handling of the case, the Daily Record reported .

It comes days after another insider told how social workers had a chance to save Liam, aged two, from his mother Rachel and her civil partner Nyomi the day before he died – and that they were scared of Nyomi.

Referring to the suspended social worker , the whistleblower said: “She had worked in a child and family social work team elsewhere in Fife before she was moved to the specialist Child Protection Team – a high pressure, highly stressful job.

Rachel and Nyomi Fee as they leave court during their trial

“She eventually left on long-term sickness absence which was when Liam ‘fell off the radar’.”

The insider told how some children, like Liam and Mikaeel, fall through the net.

They added: “It is a usual theme in avoidable child death inquiries that workers do not sufficiently challenge families, particularly if faced with ‘disguised compliance’.

“This is when families look like they are co-operating but are actually manipulating workers through a combination of looking like they are working with you at the same time as frightening the hell out of you.

“Skilled and experienced workers should know this – it’s not rocket science.” The insider questioned the legitimacy of the Significant Case Review launched following Liam’s murder.

Daily Record 

Liam Fee with his favourite Buzz Lightyear toy

Douglas Dunlop, Fife’s head of education and children’s services, announced the probe after the Fees’ guilty verdict was delivered at the High Court in Livingston last month.

But Dunlop was the senior manager for children’s services during the period covering Liam and Mikaeel’s deaths and the vice-chairman of the child protection committee.

The source said: “Dunlop has announced an investigation into the organisation for whom he was responsible when Liam died, yet he is also the vice-chair of the body who decide who chairs it and who the inquiry reports back to.

“Surely there’s a huge conflict of interest.”

Several social workers involved with Liam’s case worked with Mikaeel and his family.

His mother Rosdeep Adekoya was jailed for 11 years last July after admitting culpable homicide.

She beat the three-year-old to death before dumping his body in a suitcase behind her sister’s house in Kirkcaldy.

Mikaeel’s father, Zahid Saeed, said at the time: “I feel that the social work department have failed to protect my children.”

A spokesman for the Scottish Social Services Council declined to comment on the suspension.

Rachel Fee, 31, and Nyomi Fee, 29, were convicted of murdering Liam in March 2014 by inflicting blunt force trauma on his abdomen. They will be sentenced on July 6.