…make it this one by Unity. Alas, it won’t appeal to all. There’s no screaming in it. There’s no calling for the torture and murder of the child’s mother, her boyfriend or the lodger. There’s no wishing that the social workers involved would commit suicide. There’s no prurient dwelling on the injuries inflicted on Baby P.

As to exactly what happened during the final two weeks of Baby P’s life, the truth seems to be elusive, and all the more so for the media, politicians and just about everyone else overlooking what’s right in front of them in the content of Haringey’s Serious Case Review. Even without sight of a transcript of the trial proceedings, what we can infer from the fact that the police failed to secure a murder or manslaughter conviction in this case and had to rely, instead, on obtaining convictions for the offence of causing or allowing the death of a child, is that no conclusive account of the circumstances leading to Baby P’s death was put before the court. Whether this was because the three individuals who were tried and convicted gave entirely conflicting accounts or simply refused to implicate each other in the child’s death is unclear, primarily because in their unseemly haste to point the finger at social workers and seek out a scapegoat, there appears to have been little or no information published as to the proceedings of the trial.

It’s sober, measured, thoughtful and brilliant. You really should read it.