Frankie would leave her in a baby walker on the carpet all day. She was still giving her baby milk at 10 months old. Anyone who has followed the trial will want to know what more could have been done to help protect Star. As agencies who have a joint responsibility to protect children, this has been at the forefront of our minds. Any death of a child, wherever it happens, is one death too many, but this happened in our district, in our community and has had a devastating impact. throughout my career, made sure that if someone suspected abuse of any kind, that I followed up all concerns. In respect of the last point, I should have added the best social workers I knew would feel able to challenge a medical practitioner who ignored salient facts. Not always easy – remember the nurses in the Victoria Climbie case who had very different views about the child’s needs compared with the paediatrician (who failed to identify abuse) but they did not record what they thought and no-one asked them (until after her death)

Walker, who is due to review whether the council can run its own children’s services next month, spoke to the education secretary Nadhim Zahawi this week to discuss his work with the authority so far. Ms Hinchliffe said the independent Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review will be published next month. June - David Fawcett posts a picture of Star with bruises on Facebook alongside a happier shot and with the caption "From this to this in five weeks, what's going on Frankie?" The Department for Education said the death of Star was "deeply disturbing" and added it would "not hesitate" to remove children's services control from Bradford Council "if necessary". The court heard Smith was of extremely low intelligence, and “abnormally compliant” when told to do something by an authority figure.And they said they would contribute their learning to the government’s national review into child protection launched following the Arthur Labinjo-Hughes murder.

The agencies said there was much to learn from the case, and that action had been taken to "improve our practice so that we learn those lessons - but we need to fully understand why opportunities to better protect Star were missed". Leader of Bradford Council Susan Hinchcliffe said: "Star was let down and we all want to know if anything could have been done differently." A local child safeguarding practice review into the case is under way and will be published in January. The Department for Education said it would “not hesitate” to remove children’s services control from Bradford council “if necessary”. The Department for Education said the death of Star was “deeply disturbing” and said it would “not hesitate” to remove children’s services control from Bradford Council “if necessary”. Every review, and papers published afterwards raise the same ‘failures’, our learning, our colleagues learning but nothing has changed.

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I am worried what the current negative reporting about social work will do to the profession and the next generation of social workers, I can hardly recruit as it is. She then banned her grandmother from seeing Star and social services closed the case without informing Anita. We offered support and assistance to Star’s family for what we believed their needs to be, at that given time, but we all deeply regret that not all the warning signs were seen that could have led to firmer statutory enforcement action,” they said. Whilst not all child deaths are preventable, we must ensure that we enhance support systems that can help keep children safe and supported including creating the ‘time’, ‘support’, ‘supervision’ and training for social workers to do their job.”

Two people have been brought to answer for their crimes - one has been convicted of murder and one of causing or allowing the death of a child. When things do go wrong it is crucial that we take onboard any lessons, but it’s equally as important that the system is designed and, crucially, resourced properly, so that we can identify children and families who need our help and support earlier to prevent them from reaching crisis point and effectively safeguard children,” he said. September - Star is seriously injured at the flat in Wesley Place, Keighley, and dies later in hospital.It is better to have a detailed (curious) conversation(s) with such a referrer rather than just noting what they allege