The final report into the Grenfell Tower fire has been published - and it delivers a damning verdict on the failures of government, building companies, contractors, fire safety experts and council staff that led to the deadly blaze seven years ago.
By Rachael Venables, news correspondent Sixty-seven children lived in Grenfell Tower when the west London block caught fire in June 2017. Eighteen of them never got a chance to grow up.For many of the others, the traumatic loss, anxiety and PTSD that followed the disaster has shaped their childhoods and young adult lives.They lost friends, family and everything they owned; spent months or years in hotels; and missed valuable school time.
'I don't remember living in a hotel. We were in one room, five of us, and my mum was pregnant.'I had no home to go back to, no school to go back to. And even when we did go back to school, it was different, because there were empty chairs in our classrooms.'She feels as though their support as Walk residents was much worse.'We didn't know what we were entitled to at first, and so many people turned us away.
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