were not to blame. liz was also getting help for her drinking but the children were not returned. i was abstinent from alcohol, because they didn t want me | to drink anything at all. erm, i engaged with my therapy. absolutely everything - that they asked me to do, i completed. they laugh. oh, my god! in the end, it took ten months for harvey, now four years old, to be returned to his mum tiffany. harvs, you going in goal? no. and after a year in care, her brother max simply refused to go back to his foster placement. did you understand what concerns they had about you returning home? i understood the reasons why i was taken away. but i.i never knew the reasons why i wasn t allowed to return, cos my mum did everything that they asked. if they would have handled it in a better way, i would have been ok with it.
the family i m about to meet suffered the tragic loss of a very young baby a year ago. children s services became immediately involved and removed two other children from the household, which has taken an enormous toll on the whole family. we ve got that one. oh, gosh, that s in the hospital. yeah. literally, you had just given birth there. yeah, just after the c section. tiffany lives in herefordshire. in march last year, mid lockdown, she took her five week old baby, noah, to hospital. he was vomiting and quite unwell. we were monitored overnight, he was taking his feed, but they did give him some calpol paracetamol. mother and baby were discharged from hospital the next morning. but five days later, noah died in the night.
things, which took up - a lot of room. the social worker said that if we clean the house up the boys could come back, so that s what we did. liz also told the social workers she was worried about her drinking. so, i d been open and honest from the very beginning - about the fact that i knew i was drinking too much. i erm, it didn t seem to be an issue at that point. i liz and tiffany, now suspected of harming noah, thought the situation would be sorted as soon as the postmortem showed exactly why he died. but that took almost three months. it says he was adequately nourished, well kept male infant with no evidence to suggest physical neglect. no significant injuries orfeatures to suggest abuse or assault. i mean, basically, what did you understand this to mean when you got it? that he was perfect in every way apart from the infection that he had. the postmortem showed that
noah died from strep b, a common infection that can be deadly in newborns. tiffany and her mum were not to blame. liz was also getting help for her drinking but the children were not returned. i was abstinent from alcohol, because they didn t want me | to drink anything at all. erm, i engaged with my therapy. absolutely everything - that they asked me to do, i completed. they laugh oh, my god! in the end, it took ten months for harvey, now four years old, to be returned to his mum tiffany. harvs, you going in goal? no. and after a year in care, her brother max simply refused to go back to his foster placement. did you understand what concerns they had about you returning home? i understood the reasons why i was taken away.
must have been about half past seven in the morning, rolled over and found him. ..quite stiff and laid there. i think i knew that he d gone at that point. yeah, i just knew. then, when i touched his hand, it was cold. so, yeah. who s that? are you the white one? tiffany, her three year old son harvey and her 13 year old brother max were all living with her mum, liz. a seahorse! because noah had died unexpectedly, two days later a social worker came to the house. she then returned with police to remove harvey and max. i was shouting, you re not taking the kids. i and they were saying - i was making it much worse. what state were you in? very upset.