Lauren Wade, a two-year-old girl from Glasgow, died due to severe neglect and malnutrition.

She lived in deplorable conditions, with significant signs of neglect. The flat was described as grubby, with Lauren found playing with hazardous items like a battery.

Significant signs of neglect being overlooked during multiple visits by healthcare professionals. Lauren went without proper food or care for months and was riddled with head lice.

A postmortem found the cause of her death was "complications of malnutrition".

The case raised serious concerns about child protection systems and the failures that contributed to her death and concluded, "As a collective profession, we need to get back to putting the child at the centre, making child protection everyone's business. We need to develop professional curiosity and professional nosiness if you like, and workers need to own responsibility for concerns and not pass it off."

The case review acknowledged that the abusers were the most deviant and devious parenting couple as they masked how they neglected Lauren and masked that from not only professionals but from extended family.

Due to the court trial, the inquiry was unable to interview the extended family. One of the unanswered questions is why they did not intervene or recognise the state of the environment in which Lauren and two older children lived.

Her mother, Margaret Wade, and her partner, Marie Sweeney, were found guilty of wilful neglect.