An inquest has revealed that social services at Newham Council failed to provide necessary support for a toddler, leading to her tragic drowning in a garden bin.
A two-year-old girl drowned in a garden bin after her council failed to organise foster care when her mother was in hospital, an inquest has heard.The toddler was playing on her own when she fell headfirst into the bin on January 29, 2022 and drowned in nine centimetres of water.
As a result, Ms Adeoye had to leave her daughter with an acquintance as a last resort when she needed to be in hospital. Mum-of-two Balikis Adeoye, 37, says her daughter Mazeedat had been staying with people she 'didn't know or trust well enough' at the time of her death Mr Irvine said he now intended to issue a prevention of future deaths report calling on the council to set out what measures it will take to improve services, and to refer the matter to Social Work England.
Following a search at the family home in Dagenham when the infant was identified as missing, the little girl was tragically found in a bin which contained nine centimetres of water. 'I just hope that by speaking out other families facing the same situation don't have to experience the same pain I will always live with.'
She had no recourse to public funds , meaning she could not claim for assistance to help with her living costs, but the council still had a duty to provide her family with support. 'There were several opportunities to ensure an appropriate foster placement was put in place for Mazeedat while her mum gave birth and while she went through the ordeal of her then three-month-old baby undergoing life-saving heart surgery.'Balikis remains deeply upset and aggrieved that during evidence, representatives of Newham Council, maintained that it was her choice to leave Mazeedat in someone else's care, rather than have her in a temporary foster placement.
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