Becky Watts: case review finds care service failed murdered teenager

Bristol safeguarding children board said she was seen by 17 experts but received a fragmented service

Professionals who worked with a 16-year-old Bristol girl killed in a sexually motivated attack by her step-brother and his partner treated her as problematic rather than as a vulnerable adolescent with a difficult past, a serious case review has found.

Seventeen experts from eight service providers saw Becky Watts in the three and a half years before she was killed by step-brother Nathan Matthews and his partner, Shauna Hoare, but she received a fragmented service and there was a lack of communication.

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from Children | The Guardian http://ift.tt/2FG8n1e