When will we child protection professionals learn from child deaths?

Serious case reviews repeatedly highlight changes all agencies should make. Continuing to ignore them could leave us with blood on our hands

For the last nine years I have taken every opportunity to explain to the media and public the complexities of child protection work.

The question that stays in my mind came from Holly Willoughby on ITV’s This Morning, who asked me: “Joanna, when are you going to stop children dying?”

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