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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Aine Fox

Temporary accommodation ‘possible factor’ in 74 child deaths in five years

The number of children, mainly babies, to die with temporary accommodation listed as a possible contributory factor has been branded shameful (Alamy/PA) -

A total of 74 children, mostly babies, have died in recent years in England with temporary accommodation recorded as a possible contributory factor, new figures show.

Fifty-eight of those who died between April 2019 and March last year were aged under one, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Households in Temporary Accommodation said.

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