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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes report: children still at risk in Solihull

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes.
Social workers visited the house of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes’s stepmother two months before Arthur’s death after concerns were raised by his grandmother. Photograph: Olivia Labinjo-Halcrow/PA

A significant number of children remain in situations of “unknown and unassessed” risk, according to a report on children’s services in Solihull, triggered by the murder of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes.

The inspection report, which was published on Monday, also found the council faced longstanding problems with staffing and that after Arthur’s high-profile case, social workers were “highly reluctant to work in Solihull either on a permanent or agency basis”.

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