The Justice Secretary has said that school closures during lockdown had put vulnerable and neglected children at a greater risk of harm and abuse. In turn, Dame Rachel de Souza, the current Children’s Commissioner for England, concluded that the system put in place to protect six year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, who was murdered by his step-mother, was further weakened by the Government’s Covid restrictions, whereas her predecessor, Anne Longfield, mentioned that “very vulnerable children have continued to slip from view” over the course of the pandemic. The Times has the story.
Dame Rachel de Souza said that the voices of children must be listened to following the murder of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes.
Arthur was killed in June last year after Emma Tustin and Thomas Hughes had submitted him to a “campaign of cruelty” that amounted to torture at their home in Shirley, Solihull. The boy was isolated, abused and forced to eat salt-laced meals before dying from an “unsurvivable brain injury” after being beaten by Tustin.
Tustin was jailed for life at Coventry crown court with a minimum term of 29 years last week for abusing, poisoning and murdering Arthur while his father was jailed for 21 years for manslaughter and abuse. The judge described the case as “one of the most distressing and disturbing” he had experienced.
An independent serious case review is under way into the actions of Solihull council social workers who found “no safeguarding concerns” after visiting Arthur two months before he was killed. Social workers received at least three warnings from family members and teachers.
As the Government confirmed that it would be holding a national review to protect other children, de Souza, the Commissioner for England, said that more had to be done to support social workers to spot similar cases, but the coronavirus lockdown had weakened the system.
She told BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show: “The life of a child is of inestimable value and his voice was not heard and that’s where we need to start.
“Obviously, there’s a serious case review under way and we need to see what that says but we must take decisive action and now.” She said Arthur was not a baby and had raised his concerns but “the system did not hear him”.
“We must listen to the voices of children and, secondly, these reviews and national reviews… tend to make the same recommendations. It’s not a matter of system recommendations, it’s a matter of delivery.”
The national Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel will lead the review and provide additional support to Solihull Safeguarding Children Partnership to “upgrade” the existing local review that was launched shortly after Arthur’s death.
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As I told my MP, every single politician who put their name to these lockdowns is directly responsible for every child injured, or worse, in an abusive environment. It was always obvious that abuse would greatly worsen if vulnerable children were left helpless, without even the merciful release of school, or the dubious visit of a social worker (too often a young out-of-her-depth girl armed with her sociology degree in box-ticking and her laptop.
They are guilty. All of them. They should be forced to acknowledge this.
I remember Sir Charles Walker MP standing in the Chamber and WARNING his fellow MPs that lockdown and restrictions would impact the most on highly vulnerable children.
Virtually every MP ignored him and endorsed SAGE/the Government’s lockdowns and restrictions ….. with the MSM media cheering all the way.
As far as I’m concerned, SAGE, Johnson and every Minister in his Government, most MPs and most of the mainstream media are partly responsible for Arthur’s appalling death. And I don’t want to hear any crocodile tears from any of them ….. they put in place or cheered on the conditions which left him so vulnerable.
“We must listen to the voices of children”.
Yes, I can guess how they’ll do that – make it a pretext to make it harder for parents to protect their children from being given dangerous experimental gene therapy drugs.
They test for the flu since they’ve never isolated Covid-19. Which makes me wonder how they can tell there is a delta variant. They never isolated the virus but they use a test to show the damage of a solution does on monkey kidney cells then show the cellular debris as proof of the virus. So, they can use this method to claim an UNENDING! amount of variants. A lot of cancers and “viruses” are probably just different forms of parasites. Since the tests can’t differentiate between cold and flu and covid then doesn’t that mean ivermectin cures both the cold and the flu? Welcome to “they’ve been lying to us our entire lives about everything”. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Despite cases such as this in the past where “lessons were learnt” and regular safeguarding training , identifying neglect and abuse in children, it is still happening. Normally teachers and other school staff are the first to spot neglect, but that option was lost when schools were closed.
Anyone here remember Maria Colewell? Murdered by her father/stepfather in 1973.
The newspaper comments at the time were—–
THIS MUST NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.
48 YEARS LATER IT IS RECURRING WITH INCREASED FREQUENCY.
So very, very sad.
Yes I remember and Victoria Clumbie, Baby P. and others in the intervening years. Also not forgetting on the other side Beverley Allitt a nurse who caused babies harm so that she could appear a hero, despite the fact that the babies invariably failed to respond to resuscitation attempts and died.
Launching a new drugs strategy in Liverpool today the PM talked about the need to ‘come down hard on the Gangsters who are making hell of people’s lives’.
Take a look in the mirror, Mr Johnson…..
I’m guessing lessons will be learnt?
Remind me, was not Raab part of the key decision-making and, as Deputy Prime Minister, at one stage responsible for it when the PM was in hospital?
He should resign rather than blame something he was repsonsible for
People were pointing this out over one year ago. These two deserve no credit for being a full year late to the show.
Comments not posting?
Did you stamp it?
Ground into the dirt under my right wing heel.
Still didn’t post……..
National Child Safety Review Board. What a joke! Brought to you by the same criminals who have isolated, masked, swabbed, whipsawed and terrified the children for the last twenty months. And are now insisting they be shot up with a dangerous, and for some, lethal concoction!
Absolutely killing me to read any details of this, no matter how light on the act itself. The thought that someone can do such things makes me ill.
The only decent thing that Raab could do is kill himself in Arthur’s name.
Too little too late. We see you.
Care home in Kent, overwhelmed by staff shortages, gives families just ten hours’ notice of closure.
Is this the tip of the iceberg?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/dec/06/care-home-in-kent-gives-families-10-hours-notice-of-closure
Livin’ the Covid-zero dream.
The truth will out.
Hold the line
Preserve the evidence.
Pray for our children.
There will be a reckoning.
Lockdowns cause children to be murdered
Lockdowns are caused by the unjabbed
Ergo, the unjabbed murder children
Get your jab or more children will die
Voila!!
Much as most of us here oppose lockdowns and suss where the rulers are coming from in imposing them, this particular line that “lockdown endangers children because it hides them from view” is a load of crap. It’s a mindf*ck. Children are not “protected” by being “under the view” of the state 24/7.
Having worked in child protection for over twenty years I have to say you’re mostly talking out of your arse. Agreed 24/7 state control does not guarantee safety, but for many, many children school is their safe place and it was taken away from them.
Arthur died because his parent/step parent killed him but they were enabled in doing so by the governments disproportionate response to a so called pandemic and the disgraceful behaviour of the teaching unions and those who follow them.
considering Arthur’s real mother was in jail for killing her partner and then custody was then given to the father (and the step mother who killed him it was a total mess.
The horrible truth might be that the invasive measures needed to prevent another incident like this are worse will cause much more harm, much like locking down did.
Drug strategy to tackle 300,000 problem users, says PM – BBC News
Does the Pig Dictator know it is an offence to impersonate a Police Officer?
Had they completed any sort of meaningful risk assessments prior to locking us all up the fact that children would be more open to abuse should have been recognised. Instead they didnt complete any assessments risk, health or economic.
They implemented lockdowns to see if they could.
All members of SAGE, NERVTAG, the nudge unit, government etc and all MPs who voted in favour of lockdowns without viewing appropriate risk assessments have blood on their hands. May they never be forgiven.
You don’t need “an appropriate risk assessment” conducted by the government. You only need an exercise of common sense.
Does anybody see what’s happening with these wretched government and establishment people.
They are playing good cop bad cop concerning different situations, messages. The messaging is continually changing on every subject re this $hite show. One person will make a statement then another will contradict it, then the statement will change and be carried by others, and on it goes.
Its just so transparent what they are doing now. Continuous mind f*ckery for maximum confusion, obfuscation. Its absolutely disgusting..
Yes, as you say, the conflicting messages are deliberate in order to confuse people so that they stop trying to work anything out for themselves and simply do as they are told. It’s been working well since March 2020.
Well said.. once you’ve homed in on the methodology being used, its as plain as day..
Yes confusion is one of their main strategies
Sad news
another coincidental rare death of a sportsman
https://www.rt.com/sport/542303-stefan-jelovac-basketball-death-aek-athens/
Serbian basketball star, 32, dies weeks after collapsing in training session
Could this be a strategy to label future lockdowns as “killer lockdowns”, to be caused by the unstabbed?? Probably.
If you want to feel sane, I finally got around to watching Dr Reiner Fellmich’s videos from September onwards…clearly someone has been jabbing the good Dr with truth serum.
It’s like he’s putting himself forward as world leader….and I would vote for him!
This ghastly inhuman image was casually included in the BBC ‘LIVE’ Omicron news stream with the caption ‘As some schools in the Philippines’ capital of Manila reopen for the first time since Covid began, pupils sit in the classroom behind protective plastic screens’.
I do not believe this is a new photo and would put money on it having nothing to do with containing the so-called Omicron variant. They are playing us for absolute fools; the question is why. Now reframe this. The tyrannical restrictions and measures we see right now in the world are US, Aus, Canada, NZ and Eurozone countries, essentially everywhere in the economic orbit of the US. So we get propaganda optics from Asia to suggest that the world is facing a new crisis. I call bullshit. I think we’re in fact witnessing the collapse of several economies right now. The jury’s out on GBP, maybe we’re dodging a bullet for now. But I become more convinced by the day that this is an economic crisis disguised as a public health crisis. I would go as far as predicting that we are going to see the collapse of the Euro and USD this winter. Western… Read more »
In the meantime, this strikes no one in the BBC as child abuse…
Adults wouldn’t put up with this for 6 to 8 hours a day.
What a sick, sick society we have become.
Considering the history of the BBC, and the statue of a paedophile outside Broadcasting House, they rather enjoy this type of image.
the Childrens Commissioner has been very silent on jabbing children
This is the type of situation most of us were trying to avoid by shouting loudly about the harms of lockdown. We were told to get back in our boxes or we’d kill people through our reckless thoughtcrime.
The saddest part for me was the police priority for lockdown over the life of a child when the family member called them. I hope they look long and hard at their own culpability.
The social services sector was already badly managed in the ‘good old days’ so not surprising it disintegrated when neglected. Tunnel vision on lockdown as the only possible mitigation has created many more travesties, and the final cost when totted up will show how naive society has been.
One day, the concientious lockdown objectors will be seen as being on the right side of history….
I don’t know the specifics of this case, frankly, I find it to upsetting to delve into. If the police were contacted by the family then heads should roll, very senior ones at that.
All the promises and regrets over Victoria Climbié, all for naught. Whilst I know for certain that many children have been rescued from this type of abuse over the years, I feel fairly certain Arthur Labinjo-Hughes was known about as this abuse appears to have been perpetrated over some time.
We should all know by now that only “Covid”(of any reason within 28 days) deaths count
We warned people this would happen. We got shouted down. I’m pretty sure Raab voted for the lockdown so he should carry the can too.
Apparently we’re all conspiracy theorists so best ignored……..
NHS Nursing Assistant Speaks Out Double Jabbed Fill Covid Wards
https://www.bitchute.com/video/bqGL6zYM0rVP/