England’s health ombudsman criticises CQC for failing to fully investigate boy’s death

Foster mother of five-year-old who died in the care of the Children’s Trust had accused it of instigating ‘cover-up’. Photograph: Alamy

England’s health ombudsman has criticised the service’s care regulator for failing to properly investigate the death of a five-year-old boy in a specialist unit.

The boy’s foster mother – an NHS doctor – has accused the care provider that looked after him of instigating “a cover-up” of how he died and frustrating her efforts to get to the truth.