Systemic gaps in support for parents whose children are removed from their care helped drive runaway heiress Constance Marten to hide her pregnancy – with thousands more children at risk, experts have warned.
A major report into the death of baby Victoria Marten, who died in a tent on the South Downs in Sussex after her parents took her on the run in a bid to avoid her being taken into care, called for an end to the “destructive cycle” of parents concealing new pregnancies after losing other children to the system.
