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Imprisonment
Babies behind bars revisited
1 Hon. Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Traumatic Stress Clinic, London and Royal Free Hospital, London, UK
2 Consultant Paediatrician, Ystrad Mynach Hospital, Caerphilly; Senior Lecturer in Child Health, University of Wales College of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK
3 Chartered Educational and Clinical Child Psychologist, lately Great Ormond St Hospital for Children, London, UK
4 Consultant/Hon. Senior Lecturer in Perinatal Psychiatry, Southampton, UK
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Dr H Payne
Consultant Paediatrician, Ystrad Mynach Hospital, Caerphilly, Senior Lecturer in Child Health, University of Wales College of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK; payneeh@cardiff.ac.uk
Mother and baby units in prisons in the UK, 2004
Keywords: child development; incarcerated mother; mother and baby unit; prison
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The UK has the highest rate of female imprisonment in the European Union as at March 2004, and the steepest rate of increase.1 It was estimated in March 2003 that 32 000 children per year (age under 16 years) are separated from their mother due to her imprisonment,2 a figure which includes 2880 children under 18 months of age. There is currently a facility for only 90 children under 18 months old to remain with their mother in prison at present in England and Wales, although by spring 2005 the capacity will have increased to 114.3 The budget for the Prison Medical Service was transferred to the NHS from the Home Office on 1 April 2003 with a plan to transfer service delivery and management by 2008.4 As this offers an opportunity to reconfigure commissioning and services for children (approximately 0.2% of the child population of the UK) affected
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