Sallyanne Jones is cradling her seven-month-old baby on her lap, smiling at her little face. But how would she feel if she had to give her child up this afternoon, knowing she wouldn’t see her again for at least 18 years, and possibly never?

It’s not a question you would usually put to a new mother, but Sallyanne knows why I’m asking. She has spent the last 13 years as a social worker, much of it specialising in child protection. She’s been involved in hundreds of cases where children were removed from their parents’ care – and in cases where this led to their eventual adoption, the parents would have lost the right to see their child again until that child reached adulthood, and then only if they decided to make contact. S

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