A vulnerable and severely asthmatic seven-year-old boy died in “horrendous” circumstances after he was failed by child protection agencies who “could and should have done better”, a serious case review
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One of the killers of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes has had his jail sentence increased by three years at the Court of Appeal. The six-year-old’s stepmother, Emma Tustin, 32, was jailed for
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The death of a vulnerable man who was hit by a train after absconding from a mental health hospital has sparked a criminal investigation into the care provider and its
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Social workers have had to leave their homes because of abuse and threats following the trial of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes’s killers, a council boss has said. Nick Page (pictured), chief executive
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A struggling ambulance trust could face a “Titanic moment” and collapse entirely this summer, its nursing director has said, as committee papers warn of an England-wide “catastrophic situation”. Mark Docherty,
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Millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money was spent for “nothing in return” because of “loopholes” in the contract for a privately run youth jail shut down over serious safety concerns,
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The father of a three-year-old boy who was murdered by his mother and her partner has said he will remember his son as a child who was “always smiling and
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A drug addict whose seven-year-old son died alone from a needless asthma attack after she used his inhalers to smoke crack cocaine has been jailed for 20 years. Laura Heath
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A coroner has urged health chiefs to consider imposing minimum standards for perimeter fences at acute mental health units after neglect was found to have contributed to the death of
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There were “clear missed opportunities” by social workers ahead of the death of a severely asthmatic boy whose mother has been convicted of fatal neglect, according to Birmingham’s child protection
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