{"id":232351,"date":"2025-07-02T15:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/232351\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T15:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:46:12","slug":"council-failings-led-to-incident-which-saw-boy-12-kill-foster-carer-with-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/232351\/","title":{"rendered":"Council failings led to incident which saw boy, 12, kill foster carer with car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/south-yorkshire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Yorkshire<\/a> coroner Marilyn Whittle recorded a narrative conclusion after an inquest into Mrs Grant\u2019s death, saying the circumstances which led to the fatal incident \u201cwere contributed to by the failings of the Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council to have appropriate systems and processes in place when placing foster children, including but not limited to the lack of accurate and complete documentation, failure to communicate risks and concerns appropriately, failure to conduct appropriate risk assessments and failing to safeguard those in their care\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday, South Yorkshire coroner Marilyn Whittle recorded a narrative conclusion after an inquest into Mrs Grant\u2019s death,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,18502,28606,1620,91174,59157,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-232351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-independent","12":"tag-reading","13":"tag-sheffield","14":"tag-south-yorkshire","15":"tag-south-yorkshire-police","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114784422114352283","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}