Couple in court accused of stealing £100k from community football club
Michelle and Simon Marshall set up the Phoenix Youth and Community Club in 2012
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Michelle and Simon Marshall pictured at a Phoenix FC fundraising night (Image credit: Bernard Ashton)
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Social workers lured away in run up to death of neglected kids
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A report found the children were so badly neglected they only communicated by grunting and had sustained more than 50 accidental injuries over a period of 17-months before the fire.
A serious case review into the way agencies worked with the family said that while the children lived in utter chaos , professionals just believed the mother s word and didn t question the evidence in front of them.
Now Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Safeguarding Children Board has concluded the actions of social care services fell short and the children suffered significant harm as a result of neglect .
The damning report published yesterday also found: