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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Dan Haygarth

Police who raised child welfare concerns at burgled home ‘disgraceful’, MP says

An MP has criticised the police after an officer raised concerns about the welfare of children living at a home targeted in a suspected burglary.

Conservative MP Kevin Hollinrake said an officer who attended the incident at a family farmhouse in his Thirsk and Malton constituency checked on the living conditions of two children living there via a Public Protection Notice, which he described a “strange” response to a report of a burglary,

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