Panel calls for expert child protection units across the UK

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The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel has called for every local area to have an expert child protection unit following its national review into the murders of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson. The review identified that failings in how agencies worked together led to concerns raised by wider family members about physical abuse not being properly investigated by police and social workers. The review also provided that the deaths of Arthur and Star reflected wider problems in child safeguarding practice and were not isolated incidents.