Four-year-old Hamzah died from starvation in December 2009, although his partially mummified body was not discovered until September 2011.
A serious case review (SCR) into his death, published by Bradford’s Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) today, concluded that agencies in the city missed signs that Hamzah and his seven siblings were at risk, but the death was “not predictable”.
The SCR reveals that the family received help from a range of local agencies including children’s social services, early years services, health services, police, probation, and a domestic violence charity. It makes 50 recommendations for improvements, but concludes that no single agency was to blame for the death.
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