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Professionals ‘missed chances’ to save tragic trio from mother

By John Pring on 27th November 2015 Category: Crime

Professionals ‘missed chances’ to save tragic trio from mother
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Social services and health professionals failed to launch a child protection inquiry into a mother who went on to kill her three disabled children despite a series of concerns that were raised about her behaviour. A serious case review commissioned by […]

Questions for children’s hospital over death of Nancy Wise

By John Pring on 14th November 2014 Category: Human Rights, News Archive

Questions for children’s hospital over death of Nancy Wise
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A children’s hospital is facing urgent questions over why it appears to have failed to tell a coroner that its actions caused the death of a disabled 12-year-old girl it had been treating. Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) had […]

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