Ministers have promised radical improvements to data sharing across children’s services after two critical reports this week identified problems led to child deaths.

Education secretary Nadhim Zahawi is today expected to announce a more joined-up approach to safeguarding as the Government responds to a critical review of the deaths of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and 18-month-old Star Hobson – both known to social services when they were separately killed by their parents’ partners in 2020.