How Can This Happen in This Day and Age ?

Read this and social services didn't think to do anything when he didn't answer the door for a visit now wouldn't that mean phone the police not wait 5 days if social services did do the right thing he would still alive today

That is so sad A, it affected me greatly just reading the story

This is so, so sad, it really breaks my heart when I hear of this sort of thing happening these days.

I read this yesterday. it is terrible

I can’t actually believe this happened but but it did. Why did it take 5 days without anyone checking?

So sad. It really speaks to how much of society works these days - people not caring about other people

I feel stuff like this will get more common in the future as more services are cut back. I don't see why a scheme can't be setup where people with life threatening conditions don't have something that monitors their heart beat especially if they are responsible for children or vulnerable elderly adults and that monitor links through the internet to a person either relative or someone else who be told when their heart stops. Such life monitors could be incredibly cheap to make as simple electronics. It would be easy to allow a process of pausing monitoring while taking a bath etc. I think there are similar schemes already for some people but perhaps a cheaper, simpler solution should be available for a wider number of people. The same monitor would also work for people who perhaps injured themselves and unconscious as I believe the heart rate would be much lower for an extended period than a active person. We certainly need to find some sort of solution so this upsetting situation never happens again but work with the extreme cost restraints we have today.

Awful what has happened. I think it is the fault of the Police. The social worker visited the property twice but got no response so spoke with a neighbor who also tried to get a response. The social worker contacted the Police on both occasions but there did nothing. The social worker can't break in to the property. But the police can and to me there should have done this. Or contact the landlady. On the third visit the social worker again couldn't gain access so phoned the police who I think contacted the landlady to get a key. Unfortunately that's when there found the father and son. The police should have done more.

Yeah this is sad but not surprising as far as the council and social services are concerned, they just don't care

After seeing this event on the news my Immediate thought was why wasn’t the mother phoning her son daily?

Its so so sad. But before children actually get into the school system it happens an awful lot more often than it ever gets into the papers. This was sadly a perfect storm. I fostered teenagers as no one really wanted to foster them. From day one this poor little toddler didnt stand a chance. We can blame the social workers but whilst there are some lazy ones - we also have a great shortage of them. The same with the police force.

I saw this on the news yesterday and it really made me sad. As if the dad dying wasn’t enough tragedy the child as well.

Doesn’t bear thinking about that little lad in the flat on his own for all that time

It's so sad. The social worker did call the police but they didn't attend. Awful this happened and no one noticed. Neighbours must have heard the boy cry

It’s very sad isn’t it like you say for this Day and Age I don’t know why nobody heard him Crying poor little boy he must have been so scared his mum said he was too short by a few inches to be able to open the Fridge or the Sink and it would have been Dark, Time after time Police will say they have referred themselves to the police Independent Office to which we know full well nothing will ever come of it, We know SS will promise to learn from this and they will make sure it will never happen again but sadly it always Does

Extremely sad no words can say how awful this is.

Brings to light yet again what a mess this country is in