An independent national review into the deaths of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson has found they were not “isolated incidents” and suggested child protection needed to “change fundamentally” in England.
The review team, led by Annie Hudson, the chair of the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel, said child protection teams made up of police officers, social workers, and NHS staff should be set up in every area.
Emma Tustin, 32, was jailed for life in December for the murder of Arthur—whose father, Thomas Hughes, was her boyfriend—in Solihull, near Birmingham. Two weeks later Savannah Brockhill was convicted of murdering her girlfriend’s daughter, Star Hobson, in Bradford, West Yorkshire….