Thirty organisations wrote to Annie Hudson, chair of the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel at the end of April, requesting that the report be made public to help inform legal and policy developments around the care and protection of children in care.
But the response, published by children’s rights charity Article 39, came days after the panel published its national review into the deaths of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson, and states that it would not publish its analysis because “the primary purpose was to inform the panel’s overall knowledge of incidents – the learning from which has been shared – and the work was not carried out with publication in mind”.
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