BSCP2022-23/03

Published 18.06.25

This review is about the death of a three-week-old baby. The family are of British Pakistani heritage. Prior to the baby’s death the family were receiving universal services and were not known to either children’s social care or mental health services.  Their contacts with universal services were positive and there were no concerns about the child’s care or concerns about adult behaviour and relationships.  The review focused on what could be learnt from events of the 24hrs when father became acutely mentally ill and killed his child and injured his wife and mother.

• BSCP2022-23/03 – Report
• BSCP2022-23/03 – Report (Urdu)
• BSCP2022-23/03 – Press Release

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Safeguarding children during parental mental health crises

To help share the learning from this review, BSCP hosted a webinar for Birmingham practitioners. The webinar begins with an overview of the case and key learning by the Lead Reviewer. This is followed by a presentation on safeguarding children whose parents are in mental health crisis. Following both presentations, there is a Q&A session with our panel of safeguarding experts.