Joanna Moorhead
The Guardian, Saturday 9 April 2011

Who am I? Steve Hydes, who was found at Gatwick airport as a baby, on the beach in Sussex. Photograph: Andrew Hasson
It’s mid-afternoon on a busy April day at Gatwick. Passengers with suitcases and bundles are coming and going, jetting in from one part of the world, heading off to another. And on a chilly floor in a ladies’ toilet, a tiny baby waits for his life to begin. It was 10 April 1986 – 25 years ago tomorrow. The baby was about 10 days old, according to a doctor who examined him later. He was wearing a striped vest and two babygrows – one blue, one yellow – and wrapped in a blue-and-white checked blanket. (more…)

An independent Ombudsman could be appointed to investigate cases in which social workers and the courts are accused of taking children from their homes without justification.

Tim Loughton Photo: UPPA
Patrick Sawer 8:30AM GMT 06 Mar 2011

Tim Loughton, the children’s minister, is considering the landmark step after he grew concerned over a number of cases where children have been wrongly taken and placed for adoption. (more…)

CategWho could forget the Kilshaws? Solicitor husband Alan and his wife Judith, who, in 2001 BOUGHT mixed race twins from a ‘baby broker’ in the US for £8,200, and then went on the run from UK social services.

The babies were eventually returned to the US, where a judge branded the Kilshaws ‘media obsessed’ and with no interest in the children’s welfare.

A decade on, and Judith Kilshaw is back in the news. Having divorced husband Alan, she has gone on to marry her toy-boy lover, Steven Sillett, 13 years her junior. And now she wants to ‘cement’ their relationship with a baby. (more…)

By Martyn Halle 10/10/2010