Sat.Jan 25, 2025

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‘I can’t sleep, I’m terrified’: the rise in mothers having their babies taken away within days of giving birth in England

The Guardian

Charity finds inhumane system is forcing women to defend themselves in court, sometimes from their hospital beds, while in fear of having their newborn child taken from them Ella* gave birth to her daughter in a London hospital last week. Days later, still in the same busy hospital, she appeared via a laptop in a court hearing, challenging an emergency order from the council, which wants to take her baby into care.