The case of Baby P has been widely published, and the perpetrators brought to a semblence of justice. Of course that will not bring Baby P back or make up for the suffering and pain he lived through in his short little life.

Questions have been asked in parliment no less, after it emerged that the Government had been alerted to the failure of the child services to look after this child before his little back was broken and long before he died. As usual the plea was shrugged off with sort it out locally.

It is my belief that whoever made that decision should be publically named and shamed, surely if they had been alerted it meant that it could not be dealt with locally? That someone felt that the only chance that this child had was for the Government, supposedly the protector of the people, to step in and make something happen? It seems our esteemed ministers, secretaries, MP's have better things to do than actually help the people that they are supposed to be serving. Wonder if the bar had been open early that day?

It is a sad state of affairs when even the police are ignored in their concern for the babies welfare. Does not the fact that they repeatedly asked when the time would be right for a care order alert you to the fact that you are obviously missing something? Or was it a case of ruffled feathers, you know the 'We are the experts not you' kind of thing? Clearly they were not, and once again a child has died because of the lack of care from Social Services.

I know that these people are overworked and short staffed most of the time, but it is a sad excuse for yet another mess up that resulted in another childs death.

At least 47 Children under five die every year due to Parental or main carer abuse, that does not include the many that live through the abuse to grow up and possibly repeat the cycle.

As a parent I know the frustrations of having a crying baby in the house, most of us though take that frustration out on something else, the cleaning, the gardening, the husband.

Is it not time as decent Human beings that we stopped passing it by? That we stopped thinking it was 'their business' and we should not interfere? This is why we have child protection, this is why we have the NSPCC, because there are people out there that treat children like possesions, objects that they can use and abuse as they please. It is time we, the 'decent' people showed them that children have a right to a decent life, they have a right to be fed and loved and looked after properly, they didnt ask to be brought into the world, it is not their fault they are hungry or cold or lonely.

Stand up for the rights of children and if you see abuse then report it, if you suspect there is abuse, look into it, you may be wrong, but on the other hand you may just save a childs life.