This finding was the catalyst for a five-year Nuffield Family Justice Observatory project, which shone a spotlight on the family justice system to understand why the very youngest children were being separated from their parents at birth.
With Lancaster University and the Rees Centre at the University of Oxford, we worked in partnership with parents and professionals in children's social care, health services and the family courts to understand both what data and experience could tell us.
Strong regional variations in the numbers were the first flag that we needed to study differences in practice. The second was a strong consensus from mothers, families, midwives and family justice professionals that the separation of a mother and baby at or soon after birth was a deeply traumatic event for all involved.
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