A toddler was stamped to death by her mother after care professionals allowed concern for the killer to “overshadow” the child’s needs, a serious case review has found. The report
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This overview report summarises the findings of an independently led Serious Case Review (SCR) commissioned by the Chair of Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Board (DSCB). It concerns Ayeeshia-Jayne Smith, described by
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The mayor of Tower Hamlets Council has insisted the authority looked “very carefully at the appropriate matching” following a case where a five-year-old girl from an English-speaking Christian family was
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The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has issued an official complaint with the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) over what it calls ‘inaccurate, biased and inflammatory articles’ about a
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A programme to protect young people against child sexual exploitation (CSE) has been launched by police and a charity. Police Scotland and Barnardo’s in Aberdeen and Dundee have developed a
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Social services bosses at a London council have defended the way they handled the case of five-year-old girl from an English speaking Christian family who was placed with mixed-race foster
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Tower Hamlets Council bosses have welcomed a family court judge’s decision to publish detail of a case involving a five-year-old girl which made headlines after she was placed with foster
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A campaigner said judicial heads should examine a family court case in which a five-year-old girl from an English-speaking Christian family was placed with mixed-race foster parents and learn lessons.
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Paedophile rock star Ian Watkins could have been caught and brought to justice nearly four years earlier if police had properly investigated reports from a series of informants, the Independent
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A policewoman who says her two-year-old son was wrongly taken from her care following an investigation by council social workers has lost the latest round of a court battle. The
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