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• Children’s social services in Bradford to be handed to independent trust

  25-01-2022 20:34
  
  Move comes after investigation found serious management shortcomings and follows Star Hobson caseBradford council has been stripped of control of its children’s social care after an investigation following the murder of 16-month old Star Hobson found serious shortcomings in the management of the service.Social workers will be transferred to a not-for-profit children’s trust that ministers hope will help “drive rapid improvements” to a department which has been underperfor
  
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• Dora Black obituary

  25-01-2022 18:19
  
  World-renowned child and adolescent psychiatrist and co-author of the seminal book When Father Kills MotherDora Black, who has died aged 89 of cancer, was a pioneering child and adolescent psychiatrist who voiced a much-needed refrain, “but what about the children?”, in situations where young people’s emotional needs were not being considered. She became an international expert in helping children where one parent, nearly always the father, had killed the other.Dora began to re
  
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