Dame Rachel de Souza has called for a raft of safeguarding improvements to ensure similar avoidable deaths “never again” take place.
These include improved data sharing between services, the introduction of a unique identifier for children that links across services, and for schools to be made the fourth statutory safeguarding partners alongside police, social care and health services.
A local safeguarding review will examine what lessons can be learned over the 10-year-old’s death. Sara was found with more than 70 external injuries and 25 fractures at her family home in Byfleet, Surrey, on 10 August 2023.
The family reportedly attracted the attention of social services, police and schools repeatedly, spanning several years.
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