UK government apologises for historic mass burials of stillborn babies
More than 1,000 stillborn babies were interred in three Wirral cemeteries between 1935 and 1981.
Health secretary Yvette Cooper apologised in the House of Commons to families whose stillborn babies were buried in communal graves without their consent or information. More than 1,000 babies were buried in three Wirral cemeteries between 1935 and 1981.
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Yvette Cooper issued a government apology to parents whose stillborn babies were buried in communal graves.
“On behalf of the government, I want to issue a profound apology to them.”
Stillborn babies were taken from mothers in hospitals and buried in communal graves without parents being given a choice or information about the burials.
“many bereaved parents who lost babies in NHS hospitals were given no say in what would happen to their remains and no information about where they had been taken”
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More than 1,000 stillborn babies were interred in three Wirral cemeteries between 1935 and 1981.
“More than 1,000 stillborn babies were interred in the Wirral, at Frankby, Plymyard and Landican cemeteries, between 1935 and 1981.”