Police and social workers to be named unless disciplinary action taken, says Southport families' lawyer

Police and social workers to be named unless disciplinary action taken, says Southport families' lawyerJust nowShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleGeorgie DockerNorth West"All of those agencies failed to a totally unacceptable level", said lawyer Chris WalkerThose who failed to take action to try to prevent the Southport attacks will be named unless suitable disciplinary measures are taken, the legal representative for the three murdered girls' families has said.Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, were killed by 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in June 2024.On Monday, the public inquiry identified "catastrophic" parental and local authority failings, with a "merry-go-round" of referrals, assessments and "hand-offs" between agencies failing to stop the "predictable and preventable" attack.Chris Walker said he was prepared to identify key individuals from five agencies.Walker told BBC Breakfast: "There are five particular state entities which are causing us most concern and we, frankly, find their behaviour unacceptable."Prevent, Lancashire Police, Lancashire Social Services, CAMHS, and FCAMHS."CAMHS is the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service while FCAMHs is the Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. Prevent is a Home Office initiative aimed at stopping individuals from becoming extremists and eventually carrying out attacks."I know the names of those individuals," said Walker of the five public bodies. "If necessary, if we're not satisfied, I will be naming them publicly and I will be bringing out in the public domain once more their individual failings which is totally unacceptable."The families, quite frankly, are aghast."Family photosBebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice da Silva Aguiar were killed in the 29 July 2024 attackThe public inquiry found that "no agen...