Police contact with a mother and unborn child subject to child protection - Metropolitan Police Service, February 2020

Following multiple interactions with Social Services in the UK and Ireland, the parents of Child A had four other children taken into care by local authorities as they lacked capacity to parent them. Mrs A became pregnant with her fifth child (Child A) and, following a pre-birth assessment in April 2020, Child A was made subject of a child protection plan out of concern that they would be subject to neglect. On 3 July 2020, Mr and Mrs A left the area but maintained telephone contact with Social Services. On 16 September 2020, after a strategy discussion between Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers and Social Services, a missing person report was created for Mrs A. On 17 September 2020, the MPS established Mrs A’s location and West Yorkshire Police officers attended the hospital in Bradford, to discover Mrs A had attempted to give birth at home on 16 September 2020 …