According to a report, parents whose babies are stillborn or who succumb to death soon after birth are still experiencing humiliation at the NHS.

Only about half of the health trusts reviewed had a silence room where parents could go and calm down away from the view and sound of females in labour or healthy babies.

Over half (52%) of wards had no devoted midwife coached in mourning -- in spite of the fact that 6,500 families each year experience the loss of a baby, said the charity Sands that assembled the study.

It discovered that 56% of NHS trusts assessed still used communal burial grounds for infants, but only 35% made use of lockable burial covers.

Hospitals throughout the nation can arrange burial grounds that generally entail resting more than one child in a grave. The ground is not normally put back down completely, till the grave is full packed.

Previously this year, a London couple was told by police that their five-day-old boy’s body had been taken away by a fox, after being buried in a shared grave.

Godwin and Emem Iferi said that their son David's grave was covered only by boards of wood -- letting the animal to take out the body.