On a spring Saturday morning in Edlington in South Yorkshire three years ago, two brothers aged 10 and 11 attacked and tortured two younger boys, just one week after having assaulted another child.
The brothers were subject to a child protection plan for physical abuse and neglect, and were looked after by Doncaster Council, which was rated “inadequate” by Ofsted at the time.
The subsequent serious case review into the attacks found that local agencies missed at least 31 opportunities to intervene in the brothers’ lives over a period of years. But that review failed to meet the expectations of the Education Secretary Michael Gove, who decided to commission an independent report into the incident in March this year.
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