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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Daily: Inside Britain’s Broken Care System

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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Society & Culture, News, Government, Politics

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Britain now removes more children from their parents than ever before. Is it possible to mend broken families? Polly Curtis, journalist and author of Behind Closed Doors, talks to Ros Taylor about complex factors that lead to families being split up, how the system fails both mothers and fathers, and what can be done to make sure it works for everyone. “We probably all know someone who has had a brush with the social services system.” “A lot of these kids don’t want to be separated, they just want their parents to change.” “There is going to be a new leap in transparency in the family courts, and that will open our eyes to these cases.” “Being told by the state you’re a failed parent is laden with the most horrific shame.” https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Ros Taylor. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold, Jelena Sofronijevic and Alex Rees. Audio production by Jade Bailey. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.5

photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

0:13.0

I loved going to college.

0:14.0

It's good you can retrain and do something.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Let's talk about working, learning, saving and making the most of living longer.

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look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to the bunker I'm Ros Taylor. If you're a parent you've probably imagined or dreamt to the horror of losing

1:15.0

your child. For most of us it's a fear that comes to the surface in nightmares or in kids

1:19.5

A&E, but thousands of parents in England each year lose their children because the state decides

1:24.8

that they are not fit to look after them.

1:27.1

And the pain and suffering that causes can echo down the generations.

1:31.1

Poly Curtis is a journalist who began investigating how we

1:33.8

break up families when she was working at Tortoise and she's just written a book

1:38.4

about it. Welcome to the bunker Polly. Thanks so much for having me.

1:41.6

Molly we have to be honest about the class dynamics here,

1:45.0

because I guess relatively few bunker listeners will know someone who's had their child taken away,

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