Analysis: Experts urge caution amid fears fury over recent tragedies could fuel urge to rip up system
After the initial shock of two child murders hitting the headlines in the space of a fortnight, apprehension grew among some people working in and around children’s social care. Was it the “Baby P” Peter Connelly story all over again? Would politicians and the media decide, once again, that “something must be done”?
Certainly children’s social care gets in the spotlight normally only at times when a child has been abused and killed. Inquiries into Peter, Victoria Climbié and others intensified public and media fury and despair. Now it is the turn of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and 16-month-old Star Hobson.
