Sharon Shoesmith appeared on Newsnight to defend herself and Haringey Council, despite their abject failure to prevent the death of the 17-month-old, who was killed in August 2007 by his mother's boyfriend and paedophile brother.
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Claiming that she is as much a victim of the scandal as the toddler himself, Shoesmith said: "Peter was a victim of male child homicide, but you know we have all been victims in this."
Revealing that she has not worked since 2008, despite applying for 'hundreds of jobs', she said: "You can't simply sack people. I think there needs to be an honest process.
"The real issue here is about familial child homicide.
"When you have public accountability and harm to children then the result is explosive. You can't be accountable to a public that have been told lies.
"You can't have these knee-jerk reactions. You have got to have some sort of process."
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Shoesmith was awarded nearly £680,000 for unfair dismissal after Ed Balls sacked her in December 2008 during the height of public outrage over the killing.
Baby P, whose real name was Peter Connelly, was just 17 months old in 2007 when he was found dead in his blood-spattered cot at his mother's flat in North London.
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He had suffered 50 separate injuries, including a broken back, at the hands of his mother's boyfriend, who had raped a two-year-old.
In the wake of his death, Ofsted published a damning report which exposed deep failings in Shoesmith's department.
During her Newsnight interview, Shoesmith admitted she had made mistakes - but refused to admit they were serious.
She said: "It depends how you're going to define serious. What is a serious failure?
"I believe I took responsibility and I believe that I was entirely accountable to my role."