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• Sentences for killers of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes to be reviewed for leniency

  04-12-2021 20:50
  
  Attorney general to consider whether jail terms for Emma Tustin and Thomas Hughes are long enoughThe jail sentences given to the couple who killed six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes are to be reviewed to “determine whether they were too low”, the attorney general has announced.Arthur was left with an unsurvivable brain injury while in the sole care of his stepmother, Emma Tustin, who was jailed for life on Friday after being convicted of murder. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Councils have been short-changed. We need more government money’

  04-12-2021 17:00
  
  After years of austerity followed by Covid, local authorities are millions short on budgets. What has happened to ‘levelling up?’Craig Cheney sits slumped in his chair, with a look of dejection in place of his usually cheery demeanour. Bristol’s deputy mayor, who is also chair of the city council’s finance committee, needs to save £23m from next year’s budget – on top of almost £100m of cuts three years ago – to balance the books.“We ha
  
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• Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: abuse cases missed due to cuts, Climbié inquiry chair warns

  04-12-2021 12:42
  
  Peer who led inquiry into death of Victoria Climbié says social care cuts hitting child protection servicesA crossbench peer who led the inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbié has warned that “marked” cuts to social care funding had taken their toll on child protection services that could have saved Arthur Labinjo-Hughes.Herbert Laming said the reduction in funding for social care in the last 10 years meant children like Arthur, whose abuse and death has shocked the
  
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• Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: abuse cases missed due to cuts, Climbié inquiry chair says

  04-12-2021 12:42
  
  Peer who led inquiry into death of Victoria Climbié says social care cuts hitting child protection servicesA crossbench peer who led the inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbié has warned that “marked” cuts to social care funding had taken their toll on child protection services that could have saved Arthur Labinjo-Hughes.Herbert Laming said the reduction in funding for social care in the last 10 years meant children like Arthur, whose abuse and death has shocked the
  
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