单选题 When the shocking details of the suffering of Baby P emerged last month, ministers were quick to reassure an outraged public they would take whatever action necessary to tackle the flaws in the child protection system. And today the children"s secretary, Ed Balls, immediately announced that Haringey"s director of children"s services, Sharon Shoesmith, was being removed from her post.
Such tough talk serves only to distract us from recognising ministers" complicity in the failings that led to yet another child"s horrific" death in the same north London borough. Lord Laming, who headed the inquiry into the murder of Victoria Climbié, said those at the top should be held accountable for her death. But the then director of Haringey"s social services went on to a better-paid job in Hackney, while the council chief executive, Gurbux Singh, went on to head the Commission for Racial Equality.
What is worse, however, is that the government"s child protection reforms since the Climbié scandal have created a more bureaucratic child protection system that is only better in the sense it can be more easily audited. The government"s response to Laming"s finding that child protection professionals were failing to share and properly record data has been to set up a growing array of databases, such as the much-criticized Integrated Children"s System. The theory was that this would lead to fewer errors, but in practice it has drowned social workers in paperwork, giving them even less time spend with families—the only means by which they can really detect abuse.
Experts like Munro believe the introduction next month of Contact" Point, the database of all 11 million children in England, will only heighten the bureaucratic burden. The database will include the names, ages and addresses of all 11 million under-18s, rather than focus on those most in need of help. When you are searching for a needle in a haystack—a child at risk why make the haystack bigger?
The momentum of the government"s post-Climbié reforms has been to improve the wellbeing of all children rather than to focus on those most in need. The creation of children"s trusts in every local authority, combining education and social services, has arguably led to child protection being marginalised.
In favouring structural solutions to the problems identified in the Climbié inquiry, the government has failed to address the main requirement of good child protection—being able to make risk assessments of chaotic families often in difficult circumstances. Social workers and other professionals need to work within a system that encourages them to use their analytical skills rather than being tied to a tick-box culture that may allow the likes of Haringey to look good on paper despite all the shocking evidence to the contrary.

单选题 The author insists that the ministers should be punished for the scandal because ______

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 第一段提到，在“男孩P”事件曝光之后，政府领导高调表态，惩罚了责任人。但是在第二段作者指出，部长们这种强硬表态是为了掩盖自己在这种丑闻中所起到的作用。在以前发生的Victoria Climbié的被虐待和谋杀的案件中，由于没有对时任地方机构领导做出惩罚——反而使他们走向更好的领导岗位，才导致类似悲剧再次发生。第三段提到，更糟糕的是，在Climbié丑闻曝光之后，政府在保护儿童方面的改革不利，是造成类似事件发生的更重要的原因。

单选题 We can infer from Paragraph Three that ______

单选题 Munro believes that more efficient social work in child protection ______

单选题 Which of the reformatory measures will be considered by the author to be efficient?

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 最后一段最后一句提到，应该建立一种体制，这种体制有利于社会工作者和专业人士发挥其分析能力，而不是让他们淹没于对所有儿童进行年龄、住址等统计这样的机械工作上(即tick-box culture)。
A：这是作者不赞同的。参阅最后一段第一句。
B：作者在第四段批评了把社会工作者和专业人员淹没于数据和文案工作的做法。
C：作者认为应该缩小范围，把注意力集中到那些最需要帮助的儿童和家庭，而不是英国所有儿童和所有家庭。