Does the child protection system intervene too much or too little? This is the wrong question
The focus of children s social care needs to switch from keeping relatively few children alive to helping them and many others lead happier lives, say Carey Oppenheim and Jordan Rehill
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By Carey Oppenheim and Jordan Rehill
The rising number of young children in care and on protection plans has been the subject of much debate.
Research led by Professor Karen Broadhurst shows that the proportion of babies under one year old subject to care proceedings in England increased from 51 to 81 per 10,000 children between 2008 and 2016. For babies under one week old, the rate more than doubled (from 15 to 35 per 10,000 children).
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09:10 EDT, 15 February 2021
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A couple have been arrested in connection with the murder of a baby boy they were trying to adopt.
One-year-old Leiland Corkill was taken into care soon after his birth in December 2019.
He later lived with prospective adoptive parents in Barrow-in-Furness, but on January 6 paramedics were called to a property amid reports a baby had suffered a serious head injury.
Leiland was taken to Alder Hey Children s Hospital in Liverpool but died the following day.
A 34-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman were arrested on suspicion of murder, assault, ill-treatment and neglect, police said on Saturday.
21:33 EDT, 12 February 2021
A man and woman have been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a one-year-old boy in a deeply distressing case.
The child was living with his adoptive parents in Barrow when police received a report from North West Ambulance Service regarding the incident at a property in Cumbria.
He was still under the care of Cumbria County Council, who have since referred themselves for an independent review.
The baby boy was rushed to Furness General Hospital before being transferred to Alder Hey Children s Hospital for specialist medical care due to his critical condition.
He passed away the next afternoon on January 7.
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A man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a baby from Cumbria.
The one-year-old baby boy was living with adoptive parents when he died and was still under the care of Cumbria County Council.
ITV Border can exclusively reveal that the council have referred themselves for an independent review.
On the 6 January this year, the North West Ambulance Service was called to a property in Cumbria.
The baby was initially taken to the Furness General Hospital but due to his critical condition he was transferred to Alder Hey Children s Hospital in Liverpool where he died the following day.