British society at its worst

Boy who starved to death was too small to reach the fridge.

For our American friends, this is a brief summery of the tragedy. A high risk child of two lived with his fifty nine year old father. Social services visited twice in the holiday period, but could not enter the property. They informed the police who failed to act. In the meantime the father died of a heart attack, and the toddler starved to death. He was found hugging his father.

Neighbours were aware there were problems, but did not act. British Society is much like that.

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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

Been reading the court case transcripts.

SO many opportunities missed. SO many department heads not ensuring caseworkers were on top of it.

Once you know the facts it's easy to call it neglect on the part of the Safe-guarders. But i suspect as we get into the conclusions it will come down to the same thing it [i]always[/i] does.

Too few people trying to cover way too much with insufficient funding or resources.
And there's the second tragedy.