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Authors: Karen Broadhurst, University of Manchester, Judith Harwin, Brunel University, Mike Shaw, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, Bachar Alrouh, Brunel University
Published by: Family Law, August 2014
SUMMARY
Social care professionals have reported long-standing concerns about clients who are repeatedly involved in care proceedings, with multiple children taken into care. The researchers wanted to investigate the scale of this issue, an area they say had not previously been examined.
The team obtained anonymised data from the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass). They created a database containing the records of 46,094 mothers involved in care proceedings under Section 31 of the Children Act 1989 between 2007 and 2013. "Recurrent mothers", who were linked to more than one care application during this period, made up 15.5 per cent of the sample - 7,143 mothers.
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