the sad case of Baby P and Sharon Shoesmith
Newspaper coverage of the Court of Appeal’s ruling on 27 May in the Sharon Shoesmith case is sensationalist to say the least. The position is misrepresented by headlines such as “Sharon Shoesmith, who was vilified after the death of the toddler Baby P, won her appeal yesterday that she was ‘unfairly and unlawfully’ sacked” (the…