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• Northamptonshire child neglect case: why was toddler allowed to stay at home?

  26-04-2022 18:24
  
  Analysis: Review of Child AU case is clear on the shortcomings of the professionals and services involvedSocial workers failed to act quickly to protect neglected toddler, inquiry saysLife for Child AU, the toddler at the centre of the UK’s latest child protection scandal, was almost unbearably bleak: she was unloved, isolated, underfed, understimulated, ignored and left shivering in her cot for hours wearing filthy nappies.“It can be surmised that Child AU learned that there was lit
  
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• Social workers failed to act quickly to protect neglected toddler, inquiry says

  26-04-2022 13:34
  
  Northamptonshire safeguarding report criticises care of child during months before she was hospitalised with fractureSocial workers failed to act to protect a vulnerable toddler less than three weeks before she was hospitalised with a broken arm, despite warnings that she was neglected and at risk of harm, an inquiry report has concluded.A review found health visitors and social workers repeatedly delayed intervening over months of mounting evidence that the girl was experiencing physical and em
  
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• How many more children must die before we fix England's social services? | Polly Curtis

  26-04-2022 11:03
  
  A system eroded by austerity has been further stretched by the pandemic. The tragic consequences are all too plain to seeSomething is going badly wrong in children’s social care, a system scarred by the names of murdered children. The deaths of Victoria Climbié, Peter Connelly and Daniel Pelka over the past 20 years prompted round after round of inquiries, reviews and reforms. But still the list of dead children grows.In recent days and weeks more small lost lives have been added to
  
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