to leiland james? he d come home with support in place. absolutely. yeah, absolutely. aishea and rebecca support women who have faced domestic abuse. they offered social workers a plan to bring leiland james home. we did have e mails going back and forward between us to see if we could work out a plan of support to see what we could offer. and was that negotiated, were you listened to? no. leiland james fate was already determined. cumbria county council had identified him for adoption. yeah, i was expecting him to come home. this was the last photo of mother and son together. was this during contact? that was my last contact. she would never hold leiland james alive again. laura corkill says she repeatedly asked for leiland james to come back home. inside, she told me she passed
several parenting assessments. and one social worker, she says, told her she could get the baby s room ready for when he came back here. cumbria county council say in april 2020, they told laura the plan was for leiland james to be adopted. and injuly, the family courts agreed. in august 2020, social workers placed leiland james with this woman, laura castle. he cries. she would repeatedly beat him. she filmed him in distress. stood up like that. injanuary, 2021, she murdered leiland james. how can someone hurt an innocent child? what, just because they couldn t cope with him? doesn t mean you ve got to kill them. sorry. before leiland james died, a social worker refused to tell laura which hospital he was in.
millions and millions. well that safeguarding review has now been published and it looked at two issues. the first was the decision to place leiland james in a home with laura castle and then secondly the decision making by social workers in the months before the 13 month old boy died. the review found that laura castle had deliberately and repeatedly lied and misled authorities about her mental and physical health as well as her alochol intake and issues with debt. it also says relevant information was not shared between agencies that could have made a difference to leiland james s life. it concluded that checks on people who want to adopt should be strengthened notjust in west cumbria but across england. john redman is the executive director for people at cumbria county council. he apologised to the birth family of leiland james corkill. we are all deeply saddened and sorry
years before, laura suffered severe domestic violence, abuse that she says social workers feared would happen again a so called risk of future emotional harm. she believes that is why her son was taken. what should have happened to leiland james? he would come home. absolutely. yeah, absolutely. aisha and rebecca support women who have faced domestic abuse. they offered social workers a plan to bring leiland james home. we did have e mails going back and forward between us to see if we could work out a plan of support to see what we could offer. and was that negotiated, were you listened to? both: no. leiland james fate was already determined. cumbria county council had identified him for adoption. i was expecting him to come home. this was the last photo of mother and son together. was this during contact? that was my last contact.
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