SIR – According to recent news, the Children’s Minister Edward Timpson has now accepted the report on Hamzah Khan’s tragic death.
The report, prepared by Bradford Safeguarding Children Board, included the wholly crass statement that Hamzah’s death “could not be predicted”.
The function of BSCB and its operational agencies including NHS, education, police, social services and other professionals is not to predict death, but to predict where cases of child neglect and abuse might occur.
As such, they didn’t just fail poor Hamzah, they failed his five siblings also living at that address. And if neglect cannot be predicted in such a seriously dysfunctional family living in squalor, then what does it take to do so?
Denis Spence, Mitchell Close, Idle
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