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Digital and online activity is often essential to understanding how and why a child has died. There is no statutory guidance on how police should investigate, and in what guidance there is, there is no presumption that a phone should be checked. Many forces lack the expertise to know what data to collect and what devices to examine or that data immediately available may rapidly degrade or disappear. As a result, grieving parents are left to fend for themselves at the worst moment of their lives. If they miss that moment because the police do not know, the pain is compounded in the cruellest manner.