Member

I am sure that the noble Baroness, Lady Barran, will set this out in much more detail, so I will be brief. Stats from Pause—which, if anyone wants to look it up, is an NGO doing tremendous work in this area—show that a large proportion of children entering care are from families that had previously had a child removed from care. Almost half—47%—of the newborns subject to care proceedings were born to mothers who have previously had an older child also subject to care proceedings. Pause makes it clear that it is possible to intervene to make sure this does not have to happen, to improve the lives of both mothers and babies.