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• Councils pledge to heed warnings from wider family about vulnerable children

  28-06-2022 19:44
  
  Alarms raised by relatives of Star Hobson and Arthur Labinjo-Hughes were disregarded before their deathsCouncil officials have pledged to give more weight to warnings from wider family members about vulnerable children after the murders of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson, after alarms raised by relatives were disregarded before their deaths.Executives from Solihull and Bradford local authorities told MPs on the education select committee that concerns raised by children’s wider famil
  
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• Councils pledge not to ignore families’ warnings about vulnerable children

  28-06-2022 19:44
  
  Alarms raised by relatives of Star Hobson and Arthur Labinjo-Hughes were disregarded before their deathsCouncil officials have pledged to give more weight to warnings from wider family members about vulnerable children after the murders of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson, after alarms raised by relatives were disregarded before their deaths.Executives from Solihull and Bradford local authorities told MPs on the education select committee that concerns raised by children’s wider famil
  
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• Serious incidents more common in for-profit children’s homes in England

  28-06-2022 07:00
  
  Privately run homes have more police callouts and staff complaints than council ones, data showsSerious incidents involving the police and whistleblowing complaints are more common in private children’s homes run to make a profit than in homes run by charities and councils, data suggests.Analysis of Ofsted data by the Guardian and BBC signals that children’s homes operated by profit-making firms had a disproportionately higher number of police callouts compared with those of not-for-
  
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