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It said that it was well known there was a drought in the area, adding that poor water management and neglected infrastructure had made things worse.

But they have widely neglected one major group of students with special needs: the academically gifted.

Annie Hudson, the panel's chair, said the new legislation would "go some way towards tackling some of the systemic weaknesses that can create the conditions where very vulnerable children are abused and neglected".

"And there's this idea that England doesn't have any culture which is just not true. It's just that it's really neglected."

Opening the trial, prosecutor Nicholas Lumley KC said Charlie, who could "walk and talk", had suffered multiple injuries in the weeks and months before his death and he had been "cruelly neglected".