Pause, a project that makes women whose children have been removed by the state take contraception to qualify for intensive support, is saving millions – but is it ethical?
‘Will you make sure you put in that I love my kids, so much?” says Lisa Filton, 31, tears streaking her face. She pushes long dark hair back with a hand tattooed with the names of her son and two daughters. None of her children live with her. Two were removed as babies and adopted. Her eldest daughter was taken into foster care aged four. Domestic violence is one of the main reasons she lost her children.
Before getting a phone call 18 months ago from a project called Pause, which works with women who have had multiple children removed, Filton, who lives in Hull, was homeless and desperate. After each child was taken, “social services basically chuck you in a ditch, or they might as well have”, she says. The complete lack of support offered to women experiencing deep trauma after losing a child to the state is a brutal reminder that they are nobody’s priority now, just as many never were during their own childhoods, ravaged by sexual abuse, violence and neglect.
If they get pregnant during the programme, we’ve set them up to fail
If the project were rolled out nationally, in five years more than £2.5bn could be saved
Related: Are we taking too many children into care?
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