Daily Safeguarding Update

Met officers given misconduct notices over disappearance of Richard Okorogheye

Two Metropolitan police officers have been given misconduct notices over potential failings in the disappearance of teenager Richard Okorogheye.
The student, 19, went missing after leaving his home in Ladbroke Grove, west London, on 22 March.
His body was discovered in a lake 20 miles away in Epping Forest, Essex, just over a week later.
The officers may have failed to pass on “new and relevant information” to staff making missing person assessments, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said, after investigating.
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A majority of teachers say at least some of their students lacked sufficient evidence for their GCSE or A-level grade this year.
In a Tes survey of over 2,800 grading teachers, only just over a quarter (26 per cent) reported that none of their students lacked sufficient evidence to get a grade this year.
But 70 per cent reported that some of their students did lack enough evidence for a teacher-assessed grade, with 41 per cent saying this affected 1 to 9 per cent of their students.
The issue appeared to affect a minority of students in most cases, with just 5 per cent of respondents reporting that over 50 per cent of their students lacked evidence for their grades.
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A man from Staffordshire was found with hundreds of “sickening and grotesque” images of babies being violently abused and cases of bestiality.
The offender, who has served in the Armed Forces and is a trained industrial chemist, had child sex abuse imagery on his devices.
His internet history also found he had searched for indecent images of children online.
The offender was given a suspended prison sentence after he was caught with 143 category A images, which contain the worst kind of sexual abuse, 201 category B images and 504 category C, as well as two category A videos and three extreme pornographic images.
His crimes were committed between July 2015, and February 2017.
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The overall risk of children becoming severely ill or dying from Covid is extremely low, a new analysis of Covid infection data confirms.
Data from the first 12 months of the pandemic in England shows 25 under-18s died from Covid.
Those living with multiple chronic illnesses and neuro-disabilities were most at risk, though the overall risk remained low.
The conclusions are being considered by the UK’s vaccine advisory group.
Currently, under-18s are not routinely offered Covid vaccines, even if they have other underlying health conditions that put them at risk.
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