Jacob Crouch (image) is the latest in a string of fatal cases of child abuse to have emerged from the pandemic including that of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, Lola James and Star Hobson.
Stephen Boden, 30, and Shannon Marsden, 22, murdered little Finley on Christmas Day 2020 during lockdown. He had suffered 71 bruises, 57 fractures and crushed and twisted bones.
The interim review, which comes following the deaths of children including Lola James (pictured) found inconsistencies in social workers focus on the risk of harm to children.
Little Alfie was beaten, held in cold bath water, locked out of the house or in a shed and whipped with belts by his mother, Carla Scott and her career criminal boyfriend, Dirk Howell.