Member

Amendments 169 and 172 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Barran, seek to ensure that local authorities offer evidence-based support to parents who have had a child of any age removed from their care, in order to prevent repeat removals. I note particularly that Amendment 169 focuses on the important issue of supporting parents who have experienced the removal of a baby. The noble Baroness ably identified the scale of the impact for any individual woman of the repeated taking of children into care and expressed very well what might be happening to a woman who has had a child taken into care that makes having another child seem like the appropriate thing to do, when it is clearly good neither for that woman nor for the child.