She deserved so much better
A damning report says safeguarding agencies failed a vulnerable woman who was starved to death by her mother after years of neglect.
The report said the mum managed to hide the abuse by moving multiple times and by speaking for her daughter when she shouldn't have been allowed to. As Debbie was an adult, she should have been able to have a say in her wishes but was denied this right by her mother. The review, commissioned by Blackpool Safeguarding Adult Board, revealed that the loss and miscommunication of key information about Debbie’s condition also contributed to her neglect. When the family moved from Leeds to Blackpool in 2016, vital information about her care needs was left out, leaving agencies in the dark of the help she required.
When arriving in Blackpool, safeguarding agencies were left unaware of Debbie's skin condition or about any domestic incidents. She suffered from the severe skin infection Norwegian scabies, that had spread to such an extent that police couldn’t identify her sex when they found her body. She had found the 24-year-old lying on a filthy mattress in a dark, foul-smelling room covered in takeaway boxes and dirty nappies. She warned Clarke that Debbie would die if she was not looked after and reported her to social services.
When Clarke, who was paid £215 a week to care for her daughter, called 999 on the evening of August 29 in 2019, it was determined that Debbie had been dead for between eight and 36 hours. When she was found she weighed just 3st 10lbs.
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