21/01/2016 BBC Wales Today

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Our top stories: Concerns about a Pembrokeshire boy who died

of scurvy were raised more than a year before his death.

A BBC Wales investigation discovers.And a revolution

in your rubbish but we're still paying ?47 million

Dylan Seabridge was eight years old when he died of scurvy in 2011

and yet, his inquest heard, he saw no doctors, dentists

or teachers from when he was just 13 months old until his death.

Now a BBC Wales investigation has found that concerns were raised

to the authorities more than a year before he died.

More than four years on and nothing has been published about

whether more could have been done to prevent it.

India Pollock has this special report.

Dylan was invisible to local councils, according to a draft

serious case review. The author of the report knew so little about

Dylan that it was impossible to draw a picture of him, she said. The

inquest into his death heard that Dylan did not see a doctor or

dentist from the age of 13 months until he died of scurvy at the age

of eight. Scurvy is caused by a lack of vitamins C. Dylan's inquest heard

that it isn't easily preventable and treatable disease. Some of the

critical features -- clinical features would be very typical of

scurvy, the abnormal garments, the rash on the lead, the swelling of

the lower limbs, the discolouration or bruising on the lower legs.

Dylan's parents don't believe he died of scurvy. Or that he was

invisible to the outside world. They were charged with neglect but those

charges were dropped in 2014. Dylan lived here in rural Pembrokeshire

but his mother worked as a teacher in neighbouring carrot again. It was

during an employment tribunal the true professionals became aware she

was suffering mental ill health. They contacted social services and

told them that he was home educated. He died a year and a half later.

After his death, a serious case review was commissioned to look at

the involvement of any agencies. It should've been completed quickly so

that any lessons can be learnt and shared. The draft review we have

seen has never been published and poor years after Dylan died, nothing

else has been published either. Mark Dyson is a former solicitor and was

one of the people who contacted social services. He also told senior

officials that he was anxious about the investigation they were carrying

out after Dylan's death. He said he was not interviewed properly about

his involvement and a key documents were not shared with the author of

the review. He also says the delay in publication is worrying. The

whole purpose of serious case reviews is to learn lessons. They

need to be approached with urgency because if lessons are not learnt,

these things will happen again. It has been inadequate. There doesn't

seem to have been any fully co-ordinated response or sense of

urgency, no focus on the child and the fact a child is dead. The

council did and why Mr Dyson's claims. Pembrokeshire Council says

the delay has been caused by external factors. They had to wait

into the criminal investigation was completed and for the inquest which

took place last year in January. They also said the process was very

complex because of the change in government guidance and changing the

structure of Pembrokeshire safeguarding board. They say the new

review will be published soon Dylan was home educated. 1500 children in

Wales are. There is no legal obligation to registered your

teaching children at home. The children's commissioner of says that

needs to change. I don't think Dylan is the only child who is under the

radar in Britain so we should be learning what we can very clearly

from this case and as quickly as possible. The Welsh government did

not want to be interviewed but we asked them a number of questions.

They told us they couldn't comment on an individual case but said the

new non-statutory guidance on home education would be published soon.

As for Mr Dyson, he is now retired. He gave up his career after 20 years

in public services and says the fight for a full and robust

investigation has had a profound impact on him. You start to feel as

though either the thread of reason has broken or that there is

something so profoundly wrong that you can't put it right. It exhausts

you. It goes on and on and on because he was just trying to find

somebody who can listen fairly to what you are saying, not necessarily

agree with you, but listen fairly to what you are saying, and all the

time saying is a child is dead. Where are we in terms of learning

lessons from that? Who is asking the questions and shining a light on the

situation? The answer is nobody. Former solicitor Mark Dyson ending

that report by India Pollock. Two men from Wiltshire have appeared

in court to face charges of death by dangerous driving

after the tipper truck they were in killed four people,

including three men from South Robert Parker from Cwmbran,

Phil Allen from Loughor and Stephen Vaughan from Swansea

died when their car was hit Four-year-old Mitzy Steady

was also killed. Phillip Potter and Matthew Gordon

appeared before Bath magistrates. Staff at the Brantano shoe shop

chain face an uncertain future after it was announced the company's

gone into administration. The firm employ 2000 people

across the UK with 68 staff employed A court in Ireland has dismissed

a copyright claim brought against the Welsh government

over its use of two photographs of Dylan Thomas and his wife,

Caitlin, taken in the 1930s. The company Pablo Star accused

the government of using the images without permission in

a Visit Wales campaign. The amount spent by councils

in Wales on landfill has fallen by nearly a quarter in the last four

years according to figures obtained The annual cost has dropped

from more than ?62 million to more than ?47 million but that's

still a bill of ?130,000 every day. And the ongoing cost of landfill has

driven one local authority, Rhondda Cynon Taff, to become

the latest to commit to stop All the stuff we didn't want, didn't

recycle and Thruway, crushed up. 3500 tonnes of that processed every

week, enough room for another 20 years worth. It has become so

expensive to get rid of what we don't want in big holes in the

ground like this between the UK Government's landfill tax and the

Welsh government's finds. The council have become the latest

authority in Wales to say enough is enough, no more landfill for

household waste, no more of what we don't want in places like this. From

April, black bag waste will be burnt to generate electricity instead.

That Ashley made into something else. It costs a syntax alone to

bury rubbish so it makes sense. Most local authorities have cut their

landfill costs over the past four gears. Two of wine has seen the

biggest fall, slashing their bill by 89%. Other councils have seen their

costs remain flat. Anglesey pretty much zero. Conwy has seen the

biggest increase, 26% more than 4-mac rig years ago. It says it is

down to the increase in landfill tax not that it is put in more waste in

the ground. Recyclable. Tall pine say in proving recycling rates is up

to reduce costs. These are your crisp bags or bread wrappers. They

cannot be recycled. Material like this goes to heat treatment but that

does not come cheap. Budgets are still as tight as ever. We don't

make money on recycling. The money we earn on recycling goes into

running the service. ?130,000 a day is still spent in Wales in landfill

charges. Here in Denbighshire, recycling is higher than anywhere

else in the country but they are keen to improve further. With our

current disposal costs, it could save the council half ?1 million a

year if that last little bit of recycling could be put on the right

containers. But of course changes to our recycling does not always go

down well. Protests in Cardiff over new Wii burns that some that were

unnecessary. Anger over new recycling boxes in Gwent which some

find difficult to use an impractical. The Welsh government

wants a zero waste Wales in 2050. The methods used to get their is

still leaving some deeply sceptical. Plans for a ?19.5 million renovation

of one of Aberystwyth's most iconic buildings have been discussed

at a public meeting this evening. Aberystwyth University hopes

to transform the Old College into a centre for heritage,

learning and enterprise. It's looking to secure

half the money it needs Rugby and a tough night

for the Newport Gwent Dragons, who were denied the top spot in Pool

2 of the Challenge Cup tonight, The Sharks secured a bonus point,

scoring five tries and earning Dragons, who had already qualified

for the knockout stages, will now face an away

tie in the last eight. Scores on the doors weather-wise -

Derek's got tonight's forecast. We have seen the last of the frost

for awhile. The next few days, milder and more changeable compared

to recently. It is back to normal. Low pressure on bringing milder and

wetter conditions and from the Atlantic, meaning more rain tonight,

heavy bursts of rain, too, Hill fog, strong winds as well. Those

temperatures five Celsius and rising. Tomorrow morning, more wet

and windy weather, heavy rain, gusty winds, poor travelling conditions,

but the rain will clear later in the morning with brighter weather

following from the West. For the rest of the UK, a band of heavy rain

will move eastwards during the day. The risk of flooding in parts of

melting snow. Behind the rain, it would try and brighten up. Blustery

showers moving into western Scotland and Northern Ireland. Temperatures

much higher than today. 11 in glass go. A nice afternoon closer to home.

Maybe a few showers running into North Wales later in the afternoon.

Milder than recently. 11-12dC. Tomorrow evening, one or two

showers, otherwise the dry night. Mist forming inland. A misty

starting places on Saturday otherwise dry and bright sunshine

but I doubt it will stay dry all day. More rain coming along to the

evening with strengthening winds. On Sunday, cloudy and breezy, a little

rain and drizzle, dry spells and exceptionally mild. We have seen the

last of the frost for awhile. Milder and changeable over the next few

days and into next week. From all of us on the

programme, goodnight.