Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: vulnerable children ‘slipped from view’ in pandemic

Former children’s commissioner says Covid pandemic had put Arthur and other children at increased risk

The neglect and murder of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes was possible because vulnerable children “slipped from view” during the pandemic, the former children’s commissioner for England has said.

Anne Longfield told the BBC she was “heartbroken and totally sickened” by the case, in which Arthur was subjected to what prosecutors called a “campaign of appalling cruelty” and murdered just two months after social workers found no evidence of safeguarding concerns.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3EmsDj0