Ahana Kalluri Service Manager

She wrote a poem about social workers.

I found it deeply upsetting.

Here it is:

For every Arthur, there’s hundreds others

Whose lives you’ve touched and changed

It’s the equivalent of saying that What happened to Arthur was bad, but..

There should be no buts, his story should stand alone as something terrible, something absolutely awful that has touched the heart and souls of ever single person in the UK. It should not be compared to anything else, it should not be lessened by saying that things sometimes go right. It just is, a horrific story regarding a boy who was tortured to death and was utterly failed by social care.

It seems that the acceptable death rate from Ahana is 1 in a thousand, I guess that means that Arthur is just collateral damage. The oops,

His death cannot be negated or lessened by hundreds of times someone has gotten it right. He was loved, he was treasured, he was badly let down.

The security services did not negate the Manchester Arena bombing by pointing out the amount of attacks they have thwarted in the past, with all of those people, including children, laying dead, they did not seek to dismiss it by stating that they mostly do a good job.

The murder of Arthur stands alone, there is no but.. To try and make out that just because others don’t die it’s all good is utterly disgraceful.

If she wanted to write a poem praising social workers she should have just written one about just that, without bringing Arthur’s murder into it.

If she wanted to say anything else in relation to Arthur’s death and any impact that may have on her staff, that should be done in private.

I actually cried when I read that poem, as someone whose child almost died because of Essex Children’s Services, to find out that a one in a thousand death statistic is acceptable is utterly heartbreaking, it’s clearer than ever how Essex Children’s Services solely focus on things going right, hence their inability to learn from when things go wrong.

That poem is utterly disgusting, Arthur’s death should never be compared to anything or even worse, as has happened here, totally dismissed because hundreds of others lives have been touched and changed.