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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/baby-p-boss-addresses-conference.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Sharon Shoesmith is to address the North of England Education Conference in Blackpool" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-baby-p-boss-addresses-conference.jpg" alt="Sharon Shoesmith is to address the North of England Education Conference in Blackpool"/></a></p>
<p>The former children&#8217;s services boss who lost her job following the Baby P tragedy is due to give her first major public speech since her dismissal.</p>
<p>Sharon Shoesmith is to address the North of England Education Conference (NEEC) in Blackpool on the subject of &#8220;uncertainty in social care&#8221;.</p>
<p>Ms Shoesmith was dismissed without compensation from her senior position at Haringey Council in north London in December 2008 after a damning report into her department&#8217;s failings following the Baby P case.</p>
<p>She lost the first round of a legal battle to overturn her dismissal, but was later granted leave to appeal against a High Court ruling that upheld her sacking.</p>
<p>The NEEC said Ms Shoesmith&#8217;s speech will be her first major public speech since losing her job. </p>
<p>But her attendance has caused controversy in Blackpool, with some residents angry that she has been allowed to appear. One resident told the Blackpool Gazette it was &#8220;too soon&#8221; after Baby P&#8217;s death and that &#8220;the open wounds are still too raw&#8221;.</p>
<p>Discussing the tragedy and the continuing legal fights of herself and others, in an interview with Children and Young People Now last month, Ms Shoesmith said: &#8220;Everyone in Haringey was devastated at Peter Connelly&#8217;s death.</p>
<p>&#8220;People who fight on with their case feel very wronged. That&#8217;s how I feel. When people say to me that I was personally responsible (for the murder of Peter Connelly), I can&#8217;t actually live with that.&#8221;</p>
<p>Peter Connelly, who became known as Baby P, was 17-months-old when he died in August 2007 at the hands of his mother Tracey Connelly, her lover Steven Barker and their lodger, Barker&#8217;s brother Jason Owen. The boy had suffered 50 injuries despite receiving 60 visits from social workers, doctors and police over the final eight months of his life.</p>
<p>Ms Shoesmith, who had been earning £130,000 a year, said her career had been ruined by a media witch-hunt, political pressure and a &#8220;flagrant breach of the rules of natural justice&#8221;.</p>
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