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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Hannah Al-Othman North of England correspondent

Council failings a factor in death of foster carer run over by child, inquest finds

Marcia Grant sitting in a garden
The inquest heard Marcia Grant had been fostering for seven years and she and her husband were highly regarded. Photograph: Family

Failings by a local council contributed to the death of a woman who was killed when a 12-year-old boy she was fostering ran her over with her own car, an inquest has found.

Marcia Grant, 60, suffered catastrophic injuries as she tried to stop the boy taking her car outside her home in the Greenhill area of Sheffield in April 2023.

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