Home Education did not kill Khyra; Agency Failings did
Posted on | March 13, 2010 | 3 Comments
From the Victoria Climbié Foundation
On the day that Angela Gordon is sentenced for the manslaughter of her daughter Kyhra Ishaq, VCF- the Victoria Climbié Foundation wishes to raise our concerns that press reports on the tragic case of Khyra Ishaq seem to be focusing on the home education aspect of the case, rather than the possible major failings by the statutory agencies responsible for protecting her.
Khyra Ishaq, who weighed just 2st 9lb (16.8kg) died in hospital from infection caused by extreme malnutrition. She had been taken out of school by her mother, Angela Gordon, to be home educated.
Concerns about Khyra had been repeatedly ignored, and recent press reports suggest that this was partly because social workers felt ‘hampered’ by legislation around elective home education.
However VCF believes that home education played a very small part in the tragedy of failings in Khyra’s case.
Mor Dioum, Director of VCF said:
“Khyra’s death is another tragic example of how agencies responsible for protecting children can be misdirected when considering the welfare of a child. Home education was a small aspect of this case. It is clear that there were numerous occasions where social workers and the agencies involved could and should have spotted and intervened to help Khyra much, much earlier.
The High Court judge in the case has spoken about a catalogue of errors on the part of the social care agencies that should have been protecting this little girl.
VCF eagerly awaits the Serious Case Review into Khyra’s death and once again re-iterate our call for that report to be published in full, so that we can truly learn from this tragedy.”
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March 13th, 2010 @ 9:59 PM
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