Newborns taken into Care     

FOI REFERENCE: 24214 FOI DATE: 9^th July 2024    

1. The number of new-born taken into care directly from the maternity wards within your NHS Trust over the past 5 years   

2019                6

2020                10

2021                8

2022                20

2023                11

2.Please state whether records are kept by your Trust, copies of court orders provided by social workers for the removal of each infant. 

Babies are not released from the ward without ward staff seeing a copy of the ICO. The ICO is then uploaded onto Badger Net (maternity system)

3 How many live births are recorded for each year.

2019                5169

2020                4907

2021                4990

2022                4826

2023                4709