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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Parents of children taken in to care should get more help, say experts after Victoria Marten death

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The safeguarding review said there needed to be more focus on parents, as well as their vulnerable baby or unborn infant. Photograph: Image taken by Mayte Torres/Getty Images

Parents whose children are taken into care should receive trauma-informed support to reduce the risk of harm to any further babies they have, according to child protection experts.

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

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