Profit drives the UK child protection industry | Letters

Social workers escorted by police take terrified children from their mothers every day, write Nina Lopez Jones, Anne Neale and Kim Sparrow, many going into the 80% of children’s homes and 40% of foster care that have been privatised

There is widespread condemnation (Letters, 20 June) at Trump separating immigrant children from their families. But in the UK, away from the public gaze, social workers escorted by police take terrified children from their mothers every day. Louise Tickle urges a “complete reset of attitudes in children’s social care away from removing children and towards supporting families” (Opinion, 15 June).

Our self-help mothers’ group receives calls daily from desperate women whose children or grandchildren have been removed or are being adopted against their will – forced adoptions are the highest in Europe – on speculative and biased assumptions of “emotional harm and neglect”.

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