asthma

Today, according to news reports, five people who worked at a school in Stockport have been suspended in connection with the death of an 11-year-old schoolboy who suffered from asthma.


The inquest verdict this week was shocking enough, but do you know when this child died so tragically?  It was in December 2007, not, as you might have thought, last week.


And only now is the press sitting up and taking notice, and only now, and only because of the publicity, is the LEA doing something about it, and you could, if you wanted to, try to imagine what the boy's parents have suffered over the past two years.  


But the question that remains unanswered is this: why were people suspended within days of the inquest's verdict being announced and not within days of the boy's death over two years ago?