A report into the homicide of a five-year-old boy has recognized what it believes could also be ‘systemic’ points with safeguarding kids.
It features a failure to report accidents he suffered months earlier than his demise.
Logan Mwangi was killed in his residence in Llansantffraid, Sarn, Bridgend, earlier than his physique was left within the close by River Ogmore within the early hours of July 31 final yr.
His mom, Angharad Williamson, 31, stepfather John Cole, 40, and stepbrother Craig Mulligan, 14, had been all convicted of homicide and obtained life sentences following a trial at Cardiff Crown Court docket earlier this yr.
A baby follow overview by Cwm Taf Morgannwg Safeguarding Board, printed right this moment, has made a sequence of suggestions to companies concerned with Logan and his household earlier than his demise.
It discovered accidents noticed by well being practitioners on Logan, referred to within the report as ‘Youngster T’, weren't shared with providers that would have taken acceptable motion to safeguard him.
The overview additionally highlighted how the Covid-19 pandemic restricted the household’s contact with companies and impacted on the flexibility to offer ‘optimum baby safety processes’.
‘Because of this prolonged baby follow overview, key studying has been recognized,’ the report states.
‘The overview panel believes that these points could also be systemic, and never remoted cases of particular person error or poor follow.’
The report detailed how Cole was reportedly a former member of the Nationwide Entrance and would topic Logan – whose father is of British and Kenyan heritage – to racially derogatory remarks.
Timeline of key occasions within the lifetime of murdered Logan Mwangi
Here's a timeline of the important thing occasions within the lifetime of Logan Mwangi, from his start up till the invention of his physique within the River Ogmore in Bridgend in July 2021.
Logan Mwangi is born within the Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend, to Angharad Williamson and Benjamin Mwangi. Their relationship shortly breaks down and Mr Mwangi strikes again to Brentwood, Essex.
Mr Mwangi visits Logan in Bridgend for his or her first father’s day collectively they usually have common contact. Williamson and Logan transfer in with Mr Mwangi in Essex however by August have returned to Wales.
By the top of the yr, Williamson had married one other man, however the relationship turned violent. Throughout this time, contact between Logan and his father ceases.
Contact between Logan and his father resumes. In April, Williamson takes Logan to go to Mr Mwangi and his household in Essex. This was the final time Mr Mwangi noticed Logan, as Williamson was in a relationship with Cole and was stopping entry.
Logan is taken to hospital by his mom, Williamson, who mentioned he sustained a dislocated shoulder when he fell down the steps the day earlier than. Docs analyzing Logan discover he has a damaged arm. The hospital makes a referral to social providers and Williamson offers an announcement to the police.
Williamson calls 101 and through the dialog tells the operator the youth defendant had confessed to pushing Logan down the steps when he fractured his arm.
Social employees in Bridgend take away Logan and his youthful sibling from the kid safety register – which means they're now not thought-about to be at important danger of hurt.
Sooner or later through the weeks earlier than his demise, Logan suffered a damaged collarbone. There are not any information of the harm being handled.
Logan assessments constructive for Covid-19 and has to self-isolate.
Logan is allegedly critically assaulted by each Cole and the youth, an incident which Williamson claimed included Logan being punched within the abdomen by Cole.
Williamson allegedly lifts Logan up forcefully by his pyjama prime, inflicting it to tear, and shouts at him to ‘inform the reality’. The identical day, social employee Deborah Williams visits the flat however is denied entry, as Logan has Covid-19. She stays for 20 minutes and leaves with out seeing or listening to Logan.
At 2.30am, CCTV reveals Cole carrying Logan’s physique out of the flat and in the direction of the river, whereas being adopted by the youth. They return to the property however depart once more to eliminate Logan’s ripped pyjama prime.
At about 5.45am Williamson makes a 999 name to police, claiming to have woken to seek out Logan lacking from the home, and accusing one other girl of getting taken him.
Two cops looking the close by park space simply after 6am uncover Logan’s physique within the River Ogmore.
Logan was allowed to go away self-isolation the day he was discovered useless.
Cole had earlier convictions together with assault on a baby, possession of an offensive weapon, theft and unlawful drug possession, and had served a jail sentence for housebreaking.
In August 2020, Logan attended his native accident and emergency unit with an harm to his arm, bruises to his proper cheek and a fractured higher arm.
A baby safety referral was made, elevating issues in relation to the delay in Williamson bringing Logan to hospital for medical consideration.
Nonetheless, social providers and police ‘agreed that the brink to undertake baby safety enquiries had not been met at that stage, on the idea that there was restricted medical data’, the report states.
Police checked Cole’s convictions and it was ‘agreed at the moment he was not an acceptable particular person to solely care’ for Logan or Mulligan.
Officers attended the hospital in addition to the household residence, the place they had been informed Logan’s accidents had been on account of him falling down the steps.
In an extra well being evaluation by a paediatric physician, Logan was discovered to have sustained ‘wider bruising and accidents’, with 31 photographs taken of those.
Information doc that he had a blue mark above his genitalia, two bruises to his ankle, two bruises to his brow, bruising to the highest of each ears, bruising behind one ear, bruises to each cheeks and a carpet bruise to his chin.
Logan additionally had bruising to his left arm and bruising round his damaged shoulder.
The report states: ‘There isn't any proof that details about these accidents was shared with companies exterior of the Well being Board.’
Williamson claimed Logan would bang his head, pinch himself and mentioned the mark to his ears was from sporting a masks to guard from Covid-19. No rationalization was given to the mark above his genitalia.
The report added there have been no information of a kid safety referral being submitted in relation to those accidents, or wider issues for Logan’s welfare.
‘Solely preliminary issues in respect of a delay in attending hospital had been shared in relation to Youngster T allegedly falling down the steps, with additional accidents being noticed later and never shared,’ the report states.
‘Because of this, accidents noticed on Youngster T weren't shared with providers that would have taken acceptable motion to safeguard him.
‘A number of of the accidents, even in isolation, ought to have triggered a referral.
‘If the accidents had been thought-about by well being professionals to be non-accidental there ought to have been clear concerns to the variety of accidents and web site on the physique, parental supervision being afforded to Youngster T and if wider companies’ help was required.
‘This once more ought to have triggered a baby safety referral.’
The next day, the household’s social scenario was mentioned by kids’s providers and well being professionals. The paediatric marketing consultant didn't contemplate that Logan had suffered a non-accidental harm.
A dialogue adopted between police and youngsters’s providers, which agreed that Logan needs to be discharged from hospital into his mom’s care.
Kids’s providers then agreed that the referral could be closed.
The report has made 10 native suggestions and 5 nationwide suggestions following Logan’s demise.
These embrace urging Cwm Taf Morgannwg Well being Board to fee an unbiased overview into its follow and administration of figuring out and investigating non-accidental accidents in kids.
Nationally, it suggests the Welsh Authorities ought to contemplate commissioning a overview of approaches to endeavor Youngster Safety Conferences to assist with figuring out greatest follow, in addition to the potential of an annual Nationwide Consciousness Marketing campaign to boost public consciousness on how one can report safeguarding issues.
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