Birmingham City Council has admitted the safety of 1,400 at risk children cannot be guaranteed. The revelation came after a review found a collective failure by agencies to prevent the death of Keanu Williams, two, at the hands of his mother.
Children's charity the National Children's Bureau (NCB) said the case of murdered toddler Keanu Williams "starkly demonstrates the unintended consequences of recent reforms to child protection".
The NCB said those were: an overly bureaucratic process, lack of individual responsibility' increasingly complex organisational relationships and responsibilities and no one advocating in the interests of the child.
'It is particularly worrying that the review found that no conversations were held with Keanu to find out what he was feeling. No child at risk should ever be only seen and not heard", the charity added.
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