Fire service failed to pass on concerns over Jess Blake's welfare

“For goodness sake Hull Daily Mail! Are you sponsored by a solicitor's company by any chance?

A little girl has gone before her time, leaving a family devastated and the local rag is starting a witch-hunt to site blame because someone can see some pound signs in their pupils.

Lessons can always be learned from bad things, but to try and blame the Fire Brigade for something completely out of their control is ridiculous, verging on perverse. You cannot even blame Social Services - however abysmal they are - because unless you imprison people like Jess in a padded cell with all smooth surfaces and no windows, and watch them 24/7, you cannot prevent the unpreventable.

It must be awful for family and friends to open the paper each day and see more and more reminders of this tragic event.”

“Blame, Blame, Blame! Yes HFRS may have missed an opportunity to pass a form on but the preceeding self harm and mental health services interaction didnt set anything in place for this young girl so what would a CP1 form have done. RIP Jess and HDM please stop glory hunting on a story that isnt there as may do more harm to future interventions efforts by all parties. I know I would rather turn a blind eye to something if you knew the outcome of getting it slightly wrong (or somebody else not doing their bit) was this witch hunt. Thank You HFRS for you help not blame, blame, blame.”

“As a general observation, although sharing information between public services to help vulnerable people seems sensible, it also seems to lead to no outright responsibility being taken and an ensuing blame game when the outcome isn't so good.

Social Services instead of proactively intervening and monitoring cases and visiting - now seem to 'manage' cases from an office, offering no meaningful intervention and relying on others to do their job for them. Its the fire service your honour, they didn't let us know.... Pathetic.”

“@goldenspecial
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"Very sad tragic story but please let the Brigade stick to fire fighting."

the fire brigade have a duty of care to people they come across in their line of duty and as we have read the crew that attended did everything by the book including filling out the right report, sadly the safeguarding officer at that time didnt do his / her job properly and pass the info on we will never know if it would have made a difference, all we can blame the safeguarding officer for is failling to pass info on nothing else”

“I don't think it's fair to say she knew what she was doing, if she did, the outcome would probably have been different. The poor girl obviously didn't know where else to turn and once you get past that point nothing makes any sense.

People slip through the net time and time again, and it's just not fair. I lost my mum to suicide 12 years ago, family battled for her to get sectioned, but she laughed and smiled as though nothing was wrong, she was dead 3 weeks later, so to read this story makes me want to cry, I was 9 years old at the time, and it was the most horrid experience ever so I can fully understand her parents pain and the emotions.

Thinking of you all!

Things like this should be addressed to avoid similar tragedies happening again.”

“Kewstu,

You are wrong, she was a 14 year old in a desperate place and the SS knew about it.

From personal experience, there can be times when you have no idea what to do or who to talk to and you cannot talk to family and friends and feel like something as terrible as that is the only way out.

She had obviously self harmed before and the SS knew about it. Hopefully the reasons why she was not helped will come out and unfortunately it will be the normal story about lessons to be learned, which are never learned.”

“question over intent, errr she climbed into a tree and hung herself - what other intent does she need to show. She also left notes according to an earlier report again this shows intent.

To try to proportion blame in this case is wrong, she knew what she was doing and sadly we know the outcome.”

“If this poor girl was doing all the things reported here shouldn't a stronger approach have been taken, both by her parents/relatives and the Social Services. Surely some kind of intervention and/or greater supervision could have been put in place. We see the authorities interfering in other aspects of our lives without compunction - what happened here?”

“Humberside Fire & Rescue Service are without question the most socially intergrated Fire Service in England and Wales. They have for years been at the forefront of many initiatives aimed at not only protecting the people of East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire but enhancing and supporting the mass of other community organisations. Often resistance has been met on the grounds of Firefighters should stick to firefighting but time and time again the diverse skills and the simple character of those personnel involved has won the day.
This story is a purile attempt by those with the specific responsibility for child protection to offer up a 'whipping boy' in a contemptable attempt to cover their own failings.”

“Very sag tragic story but please let the Brigade stick to fire fighting.”