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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Aine Fox

Child removal without parental support can raise risk to future babies – report

Constance Marten and Mark Gordon were jailed for 14 years for killing their newborn baby while on the run (GMP/PA) - (PA Media)

Better support for parents whose children are taken into care is urgently needed in a bid to prevent harm to any babies they have in the future, a report has said.

A national child safeguarding review, launched after the death of aristocrat Constance Marten’s baby Victoria Marten, said that if “destructive cycles of harm are to be interrupted”, focus must be on parents as well as their vulnerable baby or unborn infant.

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