Table of Contents

Foreword ~ Patrick Butler;
The life and death of Peter Connelly;
The 'Baby P story' takes hold;
The frenzied media backlash;
The influence of reviews and reports;
The story's damaging Impact;
The continuing legacy of the 'Baby P story'.

About the Author

Dr Ray Jones is Professor of Social Work at Kingston University and St George's, University of London. A registered social worker, for 14 years he was a Director of Social Services. He has been chair of the British Association of Social Workers and chief executive of the Social Care Institute for Excellence. A frequent media commentator, he oversees child protection in several areas and has written several books and numerous papers on social work and social policy. .

Reviews

"Ray Jones has written an engaging and important book. He provides a detailed critical analysis of the case of 'Baby P' and its impact and the key role of the media in this." Professor Nigel Parton, University of Huddersfield "Ray Jones is a courageous - and all too lonely - voice taking on the tabloids' distortions of child protection services. His forensic indictment of media coverage of the Baby P case reinforces the need for a robust and independent press regulator." Malcolm Dean, former Social Policy Editor of The Guardian and author of 'Democracy Under Attack: How the media distort policy and politics'. "This is a remarkable book that brings balance and clarity to the murky interrelated world of press, politics and the police which the recent 'hacking' trials and the Levenson Inquiry have been to forced to confront." The British Journal of Social Work