Children's services directors have criticised the national media after a London council was caught up in a media storm over its placement of foster children.
National newspaper reports claimed that Tower Hamlets LBC placed a Christian child in the care of a Muslim family who removed her cross, refused to let her eat bacon and spoke in Arabic.
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