Social services make renewed attempt to take newborn into care

Social workers who were forced by a judge to return a newborn baby to his teenage mother will today make another attempt to take the boy into care.The 18-year-old woman won back her son yesterday lunchtime after obtaining an emergency high court order that ruled social workers had broken the law when they removed the baby at 4am yesterday, two hours after his birth.Mr Justice Munby ordered social workers to hand him back to his mother, referred to as G, immediately. The judge said that "on the face of it" social services officials from Nottingham city council, who "should have known better", acted unlawfully in taking the baby from hospital without obtaining a court order.The judge described the situation as "most unfortunate". He said no baby could be removed simply "as the result of a decision taken by officials in some room".Ian Wise, appearing for the mother, said the baby was taken without the mother's consent after hospital staff were shown a "birth plan" prepared by social services. The plan said the mother, who had a troubled childhood and suffers from mental health problems, was to be separated from the child, and no contact allowed without supervision by social workers.
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