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• Star Hobson case raises more questions over burden on children’s services

  14-12-2021 19:49
  
  Social work department had been struggling for years, was deluged with work and had huge staff turnoverAnother week, yet another terrible case involving the murder of a child after months of abuse, by parents and carers whose casual violence, threats and neglect had led others to raise the alarm with social workers. Yet they slipped through the safeguarding net, with tragic consequences.Less than a fortnight ago we learned of the appalling case of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, who was abus
  
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• Star Hobson: victim of an ‘immature’ mother and her violent partner

  14-12-2021 12:18
  
  Frankie Smith was ‘obsessed’ with Savannah Brockhill, an amateur boxer eight years her senior It was only a few months after Star Hobson’s birth on 21 May 2019 that her mother, Frankie Smith, seemed to lose interest in her daughter.She took a holiday that September and got a friend to look after Star as soon as she boarded the coach to Bridlington, leaving the friend to babysit in the evenings so she could go out drinking. Continue reading...
  
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• Star Hobson verdict: mother’s girlfriend found guilty of murdering toddler

  14-12-2021 12:09
  
  Amateur boxer punched 16-month-old to death in Keighley, West Yorkshire, while mother found guilty of allowing the deathA “cunning and clever” woman has been found guilty of murdering her girlfriend’s toddler after being caught on CCTV “terrorising” the child when she was left to babysit.Savannah Brockhill, 28, an amateur boxer and security guard who called herself the “number one psycho”, punched 16-month Star Hobson to death in Keighley, West Yorkshire
  
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• Learning and protecting itself: How the brain adapts

  14-12-2021 00:15
  If there is an injury to the central nervous system such as after a stroke, the brain needs to compensate for this by reorganising itself. To do this, a dense network of molecules between the nerve cells -- known as the extracellular matrix -- must loosen. This is the job of a wide variety of enzymes that ultimately regulate how plastic or how stable the brain is. Researchers studied what happens when certain enzymes are blocked in mice. Depending on whether the brain is healthy or diseased, the
  
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