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Support for social workers is the missing piece of the Star and Arthur review

The pressure staff come under – especially from hostile parents – can cloud their judgment, asks Harry Ferguson, professor of social work at the University of Birmingham.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on child protection failures: social workers need backup

Editorial: A review of social services’ role before the murders of Star Hobson and Arthur Labinjo-Hughes rightly avoids pinning blame on individuals

The Guardian - UK

'Chances missed' to save tragic tot Star Hobson as report flags 'caring' women stereotype

A national review has been held into two child deaths, with the horrifying murders of Star Hobson and Arthur Labinjo-Hughes 'not isolated incidents'.

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Social workers forced out of homes due to abuse after Arthur Labinjo-Hughes case

The situation emerged as a safeguarding review was published following the murders of the six-year-old and 16-month-old Star Hobson.

The Independent UK

Star Hobson: Warnings from relatives of murdered girl recorded as ‘malicious’ by social services

Probe into murders of Star Hobson and Arthur Labinjo-Hughes find concerns raised by relatives ‘too often disregarded’ and says ‘fundamental change’ to child protection needed to prevent future tragedies

The Independent UK

Review calls for child protection overhaul in England after two deaths

Report in wake of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson killings proposes new specialist teams

The Guardian - UK

Dedicated child protection teams vital to prevent future tragedies, review finds

Concerns raised by their wider family members were ‘too often’ disregarded and not properly investigated, the review said.

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Minister: We cannot stop evil against children but review can help limit cases

Will Quince told MPs his priorities in improving services.

The Independent UK

Whistleblower alert as 300 children left without a social worker at crisis-hit council

Whistleblower Dorcas Taylor accused an improvement team brought in at Herefordshire Council of 'running around like headless chickens', adding that kids at high risk had been left without intervention

Daily Mirror

Sarah Everard killer says he 'doesn't deserve' full life in prison

Off-duty Met PC Wayne Couzens, 48, abducted Sarah Everard in south London in March 2021 before raping and murdering the 33-year-old

Manchester Evening News

Loose Women's Charlene White forced to halt show for urgent correction after alarming error

Loose Women presenter Charlene White was forced to momentarily pause the show for an urgent clarification

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Stepmum who killed Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, 6, attempted suicide in jail

Emma Tustin is currently serving a life sentence at HMP Peterborough in Cambridgeshire after being charged with manslaughter.

Daily Record

Evil stepmum who killed Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, 6, tried to take own life in jail

News of Emma Tustin’s attempted suicide comes as senior judges are hearing challenges or appeals to the prison sentences imposed on her and Arthur Labinjo-Hughes' father Thomas

Daily Mirror

Killers Wayne Couzens and Ian Stewart appeal their whole-life sentences

Wayne Couzens was handed a whole-life order for the abduction, rape and murder of former Durham University student Sarah Everard. Ian Stewart murdered Northumberland children's author Helen Bailey in 2016 and was convicted of killing his wife Diane Stewart six years earlier

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The Independent UK

Five killers including triple murderer who smothered his baby have jail terms reviewed by judges

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes’ murderer, Emma Tustin, is being considered for a whole life order

Evening Standard

Emma Tustin: Call for whole life sentence for murderer of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes

The killer of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes tried to kill herself after she was jailed for life for the six-year-old’s murder, as she faces the possibility of the rest of her life in prison.

The Independent UK

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes ‘faced systematic brutality amounting to torture’

Emma Tustin and Thomas Hughes are among five killers having their sentences reviewed.

Wales Online

Wayne Couzens and killers of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes to have sentences reviewed

Ex-Pc Couzens was handed a whole-life term last year for the rape and murder of 33-year-old Sarah Everard

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The Independent UK

Court of Appeal to review Wayne Couzens and other killers’ sentences

Senior judges will hear challenges or appeals to the sentences of five killers, including the whole-life term for the killer of Sarah Everard.

Manchester Evening News

Evil killers of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes could die in prison in bid to extend sentences

The pair could soon be hit with whole life orders

The Guardian - UK

How many more children must die before we fix England’s social services?

A system eroded by austerity has been further stretched by the pandemic. The tragic consequences are all too plain to see, says author Polly Curtis

The Guardian - UK

Child deaths by assault: will appalling brutality spur on reviews to fix a failing system?

Public policy faces crucial challenge in wake of cases of torture, neglect and killings of defenceless children in Britain

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