The Government has accepted all recommendations for change made by an inquiry which found the Southport killings could have been prevented and identified “fundamental failings”, the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has said.
She has promised a shake-up of policing, schools, social media rules and mental health services.
The inquiry found the murders of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, “could and should have been prevented”, if agencies had taken steps to stop Axel Rudakubana.could and should have been prevented” if agencies had acted to stop Axel Rudakubana, who was 17 at the time of the attack on a dance class.
The Inquiry chair Sir Adrian Fulford identified “fundamental failure” by organizations and multi-agency arrangements to take ownership of the risk Rudakubana posed in the years before the attack.
