How we're helping vulnerable women to keep their children out of care | Stuart Smith

Calderdale council’s Positive Choices scheme shows mothers trapped in a painful cycle how to become successful parents

In social care we know that women who have a child taken into care often face this predicament more than once, sometimes three or four times. We also know that on many occasions, these women were in care themselves as children. Approximately one in four birth mothers in family court proceedings will reappear with a subsequent child, and recent research suggests 58% of these mothers will have experienced sexual abuse.

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