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Lockdown no excuse for failure to safeguard Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, says MP

03-12-2021 19:24

Robert Halfon, who chairs education select committee, accuses services and authorities of ‘dramatic failure’Lockdown should not be used as a reason for Solihull council and other child safeguarding agencies to be “let off the hook” over the murder of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, according to one influential Conservative MP.Robert Halfon, the MP for Harlow and chair of the education select committee, said that while the pandemic lockdowns and school closures had led to an increa

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Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: timeline of events that ended in his murder

03-12-2021 19:23

Worried relatives of the Solihull six-year-old had reported concerns, so were there failures by authorities?Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: woman jailed for life for murder of stepson, sixThe horrific case of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes is raising serious questions about how his abuse went undetected for so long, whether authorities failed in their duty to protect him and how lockdown may have prevented them from doing so.In the space of just 18 months Arthur went from a bright and bubbly boy to a weak and ema

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How much did lockdown help Arthur Labinjo-Hughes’ killers escape notice?

03-12-2021 17:53

Analysis: review into murder of Solihull six-year-old will focus on how crimes against him were not picked up soonerThe terrible death of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, murdered by his stepmother Emma Tustin after weeks of abuse and torture, may be an outlier in terms of its sheer brutality but is unlikely to be the only case of its kind to emerge from the lockdown period.Arthur was killed in June 2020, just weeks after his father, Thomas Hughes, (who was convicted of Arthur’s manslau

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The death of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes raises hard questions – we must address them all | Harry Ferguson

03-12-2021 17:28

Social distancing and school closures may have played a part, but other factors were at play
Harry Ferguson is professor of social work at the University of BirminghamThe manner of the death of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes at the hands of his father and stepmother, now convicted of manslaughter and murder respectively, is shocking. The evidence heard in court was some of the most tragic I’ve seen and heard in a social work career lasting more than 40 years. This was echoed by the jud

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