New court to help mothers at risk of losing their children - The Guardian 26th November 2007

Sharon Simms was brought up in care and started abusing drugs at the age of 12 in a children's home. Addicted in her 20s and early 30s to crack cocaine and alcohol, she saw three of her children taken away by social workers, the youngest just days after she was born. Her story is far from rare. District judge Nicholas Crichton, who deals with care cases at Wells Street family proceedings court in central London, has seen mothers lose child after child to care through addiction problems. One mother had an almost unbelievable 14 babies removed. Each time she gave birth, her baby was whisked away.

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