‘I’m Beatrice’s mum, and because she’s dead, this is the only way I can be her mum,” Emily Barley said of her campaigning a year after her daughter died during birth.
Beatrice should have been born a healthy baby in May 2022 but lost her life because of catastrophic errors by staff at Barnsley hospital that included mistaking Emily’s heartbeat for her daughter’s and a failure to intervene with an emergency caesarean despite Emily repeatedly raising the alarm. Emily has since devoted herself to campaigning for safe maternity services, setting up the Maternity Safety Alliance with other parents whose babies would be alive were it not for appalling failings.
