Reporting the relationship between mental illness and homicide and suicide must be handled sensitively. When it is not, a social media firestorm can follow, explains Professor Louis Appleby. It was about 18 months ago, late at night, when I checked my Twitter timeline for news. What I found took me by surprise. The mental health […]
The hidden crisis of mothers who repeatedly lose children to care
A new study has revealed how many mothers lose successive infants to public care, explains Dr Karen Broadhurst. Speak to any judge around the country and he or she will readily recount a case of a vulnerable mother who has appeared in the family court on successive occasions, losing infant after infant to public care […]