The ODAIT explained that to date, all remains recovered from the area are of infants that were buried in coffins, which have since decayed. In a small number of instances, two or three individuals were buried in the same coffin.
That's when I saw the baby's face. I was shocked. She was swaddled really tight. She was perfect, lying there as calm as can be. She got examined there. She was beautiful and healthy. Doctors told them the baby was about two or three hours old when she was left in the shopping cart.
The High Court has ruled that a west London council acted unlawfully and failed an orphaned child by leaving him in squalid conditions in order to avoid the financial burden of taking him on as looked after. While the child lived with his sister, who was also a child, the case was bought on behalf of only one of them. As a result of these tenancy succession laws, the child became a trespasser in his own home.
Private providers of child social care in England will be pushed out of the system if they are found to be profiteering, the children's minister has said. Josh MacAlister, who is in charge of overhauling the care system for children, also called for a fostering equivalent of the Homes for Ukraine scheme to provide homes for tens of thousands of children.
The board employs more than 50 social workers to conduct the assessments, but some children have said they are out to get them. The report finds that in some cases the process has led to children's deteriorating mental health, including self-harm and suicidal ideation, and that going through a Home Office age assessment is far more severe and traumatic than a comparable experience with a local authority social worker.