Aberdeen council launches audit into crematorium

Aberdeen City Council has launched an independent audit into the operations of a crematorium following revelations that ashes of dead babies were not returned to parents.

The move comes after the Evening News revealed a similar scandal had taken place at Mortonhall in Edinburgh.

Details released under freedom of information shows 24 babies were 
cremated at Aberdeen Crematorium in the last five years but on no occasions were ashes given to their families.

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The chief executive of Aberdeen City Council, Valerie Watts, has 
announced that an audit is under way into procedures at Hazlehead Crematorium, “for the sake of openness and transparency” and said she was confident staff had demonstrated the “utmost professionalism”.

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