ABSTRACT
Every day, in local authorities across the UK, another child is removed because they are at risk of significant harm from their birth parents. More often than not, it is the mother who is the main carer. During care proceedings, support from children’s services for the birth parents is through the prism of the child’s needs and when the child is removed, that support goes too. Pause works with the women left behind, women who have, for the most part, had at least two children removed from their care. By intervening at this point, Pause aims to break the devastating cycle of more children going into care.
