Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 4,26 Sep 2020,8 mins

1. An introduction to the case

Will Emily be allowed to keep her baby?

Available for over a year

A private story, now gone public. BBC Radio 4's PM follows the story of 'Emily', a mother who works with social services to keep her new baby, after nine of her children had been taken into care. We start off by meeting Frontline recruiter James Shutkever, who says he wants to change the narrative that children services are there to take children away from parents. Our correspondent Andrew Bomford reports

Programme Website
More episodes