Dr Shona Mason makes a heartfelt plea for a change in the law and in public attitudes to children separated from their mothers by the latter's spell in prison. This may be for a trivial offence but the harm done to a family can be long-lasting. The family home may have been lost. Contacts between children and mothers are severely limited.
Our treatment of such children conflicts with the nation's duties under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child which the UK has signed up to.
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