Star Hobson: Council that failed to prevent toddler's death has high turnover of social workers

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Star Hobson: Council that failed to prevent toddler's death has high turnover of social workers
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An independent review has also found social workers too often 'disregarded' the views of wider family members and friends who five times expressed concerns about Star's welfare

Gladys Rhodes is an improvement adviser at the Department for Education who led Bradford children's services for six months, but left the post over a year before Star's murder.

Responding to Sky News' research, she added:"I think that's really unfortunate, because the one thing that we need to be able to give children is stability and continuity of engagement with a children's social worker. So, the national problem that we are facing where we know we don't have enough experienced social workers to be able to keep stability in the workplace.

"The publication of this thorough and detailed independent review outlines very clearly the opportunities that we missed locally to better protect Star.

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