Families SA considered the parenting skills of Chloe Valentine's drug-using teenage mother to be 'good enough' despite evidence of neglect, an inquest has heard. Chloe was four years old when she died of massive head injuries in January 2012 after being forced to ride a motorbike and repeatedly crashed over a three-day period in her Adelaide backyard. An inquest into the girl's death has heard her short life was marred by horrific squalor and chronic neglect but she was never removed from her mother, Ashlee Polkinghorne. Scroll down for video Chloe Valentine was just four when she died of massive head injuries in January 2012
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Chloe Valentine  died at the hands of her neglectful mother Ashley Polkinghorne and her partner Benjamin McPartland in 2012
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She suffered massive head injuries, black and swollen eyes, a cut to her head and bruises all over her body
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Social worker Leanne Stewart told the inquest into Chloe's death that she believed the toddler was receiving 'good enough' care in early 2009
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This is despite substantial evidence of neglect and multiple child abuse notifications against her mother at the time
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Counsel  questioned why Ms Stewart was excusing Polkinghorne's behaviour, saying her obligation was to protect infant Chloe
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Polkinghorne, 22, and McPartland, 28, pleaded guilty to manslaughter through criminal neglect
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