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

Child protection agencies failed son of drug addict, review finds

Hakeem Hussain
Hakeem Hussain had told school staff that he was ‘5% happy, 100% angry and 1,000% scared’. Photograph: PA

A severely asthmatic seven-year-old boy who died “gasping for air” alone at night was failed by child protection agencies who “could and should have done better”, a serious case review has found.

Hakeem Hussain died in the garden of an address where he was staying with his mother, Laura Heath, 40, in the early hours of 26 November 2017.

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