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A report found the children were so badly neglected they only communicated by grunting and had sustained more than 50 accidental injuries over a period of 17-months before the fire.
A serious case review into the way agencies worked with the family said that while the children lived in utter chaos , professionals just believed the mother s word and didn t question the evidence in front of them.
Now Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Safeguarding Children Board has concluded the actions of social care services fell short and the children suffered significant harm as a result of neglect .
The damning report published yesterday also found:
Mum of âneglectedâ four kids who died in fire âlaughed in faces of child protection officersâ
Natalie Unitt is refusing to accept that her kids were neglected despite them communicating by grunting .
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Updated: 16 Dec 2020, 0:58
THE mum of four children aged between three and eight who died in a house fire shouted I wish I d never had you at them, it s alleged.
Riley Holt, eight, and siblings Keegan, Tilly and Olly Unitt, aged six, four and three, died in a blaze sparked when their parents fell asleep while smoking at their home.
Riley Holt, eight, and siblings Keegan, Tilly and Olly Unitt, aged six, four and three, died in a blaze at their Staffs home
Mum Natalie Unitt and her boyfriend Chris Moulton, dad of three of the children, were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter
Four young children who died in a house fire after their parents fell asleep while smoking in bed were so badly neglected they only communicated by grunting and suffered dozens of accidental injuries, a report has found.
Social services were said to have fallen short in protecting Riley Holt, eight, and siblings Keegan, Tilly and Olly Unitt, aged six, four and three, who all died when a blaze broke out at their family home in Stafford, Staffordshire, in February last year.
Their youngest brother, aged just two at the time, survived the tragedy.
A serious case review into the way agencies worked with the family said that while the children lived in utter chaos , professionals just believed the mother s word and didn t question the evidence in front of them.
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