Parents jailed over rickets baby death – BBC News
‘The parents of a five-month-old boy who died from acute rickets have been jailed for manslaughter.’
BBC News, 28th February 2014
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‘The parents of a five-month-old boy who died from acute rickets have been jailed for manslaughter.’
BBC News, 28th February 2014
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‘The Child Maltreatment Bill has barely progressed towards the statute book – and perhaps with good reason.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 27th February 2014
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‘More could have been done to help three children who were found drowned after their mother fell to her death from a car park, a report has found.’
BBC News, 22nd January 2014
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‘The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is to investigate whether officers mishandled the case of a four-year-old boy whose mummified remains were found in his cot almost two years after he died.’
The Guardian, 20th January 2014
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‘The head of the social care department that “missed chances” to save the life of a boy has said he could not rule out a similar case happening in future.’
BBC News, 17th January 2014
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‘A father who claimed the family dog caused fatal injuries to his 11-month-old son has been jailed for life for his murder.’
BBC News, 18th December 2013
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‘A report has concluded the death of a 22-month-old boy may have been prevented if organisations had worked more effectively together.’
BBC News, 12th December 2013
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“A serious case review (SCR) into the starvation of four-year-old Hamzah Khan has concluded that while his death was ‘not predictable’, Bradford social services missed signs that, had they been put together, could have warned that Hamzah and his seven siblings were at risk.”
The Guardian, 13th November 2013
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“Vulnerable children are being let down by councils with ineffective and incompetent leadership, according to the Ofsted chief inspector, who singled out Birmingham as a ‘national disgrace’.”
The Guardian, 15th October 2013
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“Studying past cases of child neglect is a ‘big distraction’ for child protection professionals, a leading professor of social work has said, a day after a jury convicted a mother of starving her young son to death.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th October 2013
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“An alcoholic mother of eight who starved her four-year-old son to death and left his body in a cot for nearly two years has been jailed for 15 years.”
The Guardian, 4th October 2013
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“A mother was on Thursday found guilty of starving her four-year-old son to death and letting his body mummify unseen in a cot for two years.”
The Guardian, 3rd October 2013
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“A mid Wales MP is bidding to change child neglect laws that date back to the 19th Century, which he claims are now ‘nonsense’. Ceredigion MP Mark Williams wants criminal legislation based on 1868 poor laws to be updated to include emotional and psychological abuse.”
BBC News, 30th June 2013
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“In March 2012 the Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Education, asked Lord Carlile to conduct an independent review of the case of the ‘J’ children in Edlington. The ‘J’ children had committed a very serious assault on two young victims in April 2009, having assaulted another young victim the previous weekend.”
Department for Education, March 2013
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“A man who admitted neglecting his four-month-old son who died when the boy’s
mother knocked a television onto him, has been jailed for 46 months.”
BBC News, 7th March 2013
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“The current laws on child neglect are not fit for the 21st Century and in ‘urgent’ need of reform, Britain’s most senior authority on family law warns today.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th February 2013
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Related link: The criminal law and child neglect: an independent analysis and proposal for reform (PDF)
“The mother of a four-month-old boy who died when a television fell on his head has been jailed.”
BBC News, 31st January 2013
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“The mother of a five-year-old boy found wandering a Flintshire street at night
has been given an eight week suspended prison sentence.”
BBC News, 24th January 2013
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“Child protection standards in the social services department at the centre of the Edlington torture scandal have got worse rather then better despite high-profile Government intervention, a report will show today.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th November 2012
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“The House of Commons Education Committee’s report Children first: the child protection system in England calls for earlier intervention by local authorities to prevent abuse to and neglect of children.”
Family Law Week, 7th November 2012
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