Life for Child AU, the toddler at the centre of the UK’s latest child protection scandal, was almost unbearably bleak: she was unloved, isolated, underfed, understimulated, ignored and left shivering in her cot for hours wearing filthy nappies.
“It can be surmised that Child AU learned that there was little if any point in crying,” the Northamptonshire safeguarding practice review noted grimly. “Health professionals noted that she presented as sad, watchful and frozen.”
