'Missed opportunities' to help Amy
A serious case review into the death of a 16-month-old girl who died after her spine was snapped by her father identified "key missed opportunities" where agencies could have intervened with her family.
Amy Howson, who died in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, had also been punched and slapped on numerous occasions and left with fractures to her arms, legs and ribs by her violent father, James Howson, who was later found guilty of murder.
The serious case review into Amy's death is one of two being published into the deaths of youngsters murdered in Doncaster - a town at the centre of a controversy about the number of children, known to social workers, who have died since 2004.
