Joint working the answer for the future of child protection

 Pavilion Editorial Director Andrew Chilvers considers the positives of joint working on child protection: Hackney came under the spotlight after a coroner’s report slated the local health and social services for the horrific killings of 10-year-old Antoine Gamor-Ogunkoya and his three-year-old sibling Kenniece in 2007. The brutality of their deaths at the hands of their mother, Vivian, is beyond belief, involving attacks with a claw hammer and suffocation with cling film. She had been suffering from paranoid delusions believing that her children were not really hers; she claimed her own children had died at birth. At the time of the killings,