Teacher's murder could not have been prevented, report finds

Maguire was stabbed to death by 15-year-old pupil Will Cornick as she taught a Spanish lesson at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds.

However, there were no "credible warning signs" that could have been picked up by professionals leading up to the murder, according to the LSCB's learning lessons review.

Cornick was not known to social care services nor police prior to the incident in April 2014, and had not had any involvement with child and adolescent mental health services.

"No individual other than Will Cornick should in any way feel responsible for Ann's murder," the report concluded.

The review calls on the government to increase support to agencies in safeguarding crises.

"The government should give consideration to developing a 'First Response Resource Kit' of resources and simple guidance that can be instantly made available in circumstances where there is deemed to be an unprecedented safeguarding crisis involving children and/or young people," the report states.

It also says that an independent local officer should be designated to take a "balcony view" of the crisis to understand what happens and why.

"This should be contemporaneously recorded as fully as possible with respect to both facilitating future learning but also offering an early ‘interim review' to keep the response clear, consistent and ‘on track' in terms of safeguarding and likely effectiveness," the review states.

The review recommends that information about pupils should be recorded and shared, and that schools should make clear to pupils that they can share concerns about peers' or teachers' welfare with staff.

Mark Peel, independent chairman of the Leeds LSCB, said: "It is reassuring that this outcome of the learning lessons review is in agreement with the findings of the court, in that this tragic incident could not have been foreseen or prevented, and that the only person responsible for Ann Maguire's death has been punished accordingly."