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Council did not do enough to protect toddler from harm: Ombudsman

A toddler was left with life-long injuries after East Riding of Yorkshire Council missed opportunities to protect him from his mother's violent partner, a Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman investigation has found.

The case was brought to the Ombudsman by the boy's father and grandmother, after a council investigation, which concluded the council had acted appropriately, took 76 weeks too long to complete.

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