Sat.Dec 04, 2021

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‘Councils have been short-changed. We need more government money’

The Guardian

After years of austerity followed by Covid, local authorities are millions short on budgets. What has happened to ‘levelling up?’ Craig Cheney sits slumped in his chair, with a look of dejection in place of his usually cheery demeanour. Bristol’s deputy mayor, who is also chair of the city council’s finance committee, needs to save £23m from next year’s budget – on top of almost £100m of cuts three years ago – to balance the books.

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Sentences for killers of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes to be reviewed for leniency

The Guardian

Attorney general to consider whether jail terms for Emma Tustin and Thomas Hughes are long enough The jail sentences given to the couple who killed six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes are to be reviewed to “determine whether they were too low”, the attorney general has announced. Arthur was left with an unsurvivable brain injury while in the sole care of his stepmother, Emma Tustin, who was jailed for life on Friday after being convicted of murder.

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Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: abuse cases missed due to cuts, Climbié inquiry chair says

The Guardian

Peer who led inquiry into death of Victoria Climbié says social care cuts hitting child protection services A crossbench peer who led the inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbié has warned that “marked” cuts to social care funding had taken their toll on child protection services that could have saved Arthur Labinjo-Hughes. Herbert Laming said the reduction in funding for social care in the last 10 years meant children like Arthur, whose abuse and death has shocked the nation , were being mis

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Sometimes the most caring thing to do is to remove a child from their family | Sonia Sodha

The Guardian

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes was failed fatally, left to be terrorised in his own home. The idea that care should be avoided at all costs is wrongheaded Sometimes, a news report is so horrific you know it will haunt you forever. So it is with the story of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, the six-year-old tortured to death by his stepmother and father. Starved, poisoned with salt, forced to stand for 14 hours at a time and subjected to punishment beatings: Arthur went from a happy, healthy young boy to a child br

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The Observer view on the state of children’s social care | Observer editorial

The Guardian

Our vulnerable youngsters deserve the best the state can do and the Arthur Labinjo-Hughes case shows the tragic cost of failure Perhaps the most important job that the state has is to protect children at risk of harm and abuse. Yet children’s social care is facing a mounting crisis that gets far less exposure than that confronting the NHS or even adult social care.