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Last week, we reported a ten-year-old boy had been hospitalised with ‘potentially life-threatening’ symptoms due to staggering neglect.

Readers expressed their ‘heartbreak and shock’ about the case, which saw ‘Abdur’ admitted with malnourishment, anaemia and scurvy. For several weeks, the boy from Oldham had been sent to school with little more than ‘dry, on one occasion mouldy, bread and water’.

That’s when he appeared at school at all.

Hundreds commented on and shared the story and one question kept coming up again and again: How could this happen?

It’s clear there were significant failures by a number of different agencies involved in Abdur’s care . The case was littered with ‘missed opportunities and oversights’ by the local authority and medical professionals, a

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