A council agreed to pay damages to an 18-year-old mother yesterday after admitting it acted unlawfully when it took away her baby hours after he was born.
The boy, known as Baby K, was removed by Nottingham city council social workers without a court order at the end of January, and returned to his mother – known only as G – the next day after an emergency high court ruling that “on the face of it” he was taken without authority. Within days, however, the council placed K with a foster family after being granted an interim care order at county court.
