Edlington Brothers

There are so many articles on the Edlington Brothers too many to list but here are a few.  The BBC link takes you to a clip from Newsnight about how it could have been prevented.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/22/toxic-family-life-edlington-brothers

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/22/edlington-attack-victims?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jan/22/doncaster-child-worker-disciplined-edlington

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/joepublic/2010/jan/26/edlington-case-review-publication?intcmp=239

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8459938.stm

Missed opportunities

The report highlights 12 lessons that should have been learnt from previous cases and outlines the events leading up to the Edlington attack.

It spells out how the assault was not only predictable, it was entirely preventable.

Over the course of 14 years, nine agencies had been involved with the brothers' family - between them they missed 31 opportunities to intervene.

The report praises the exceptional commitment of some professionals, but cites a lack of leadership and effective multi-agency working as contributing to the incident.