The Philpott Case

It’s been a couple of weeks since the Serious Case Review was published on the circumstances leading to the terrible deaths of the Philpott children in a fire in Derby. Here, CareKnowledge editor Jim Kennedy considers the real questions behind the headlines: At the time of the publication of the Serious Case Review, at least one tabloid ran a feature bemoaning the fact that no professional was to be disciplined, and asked (rhetorically) what was the point of social services if they couldn’t protect children like the Philpotts? This is, of course, just another example of the atrociously negative light