The government has been accused of being “blind to the needs” of children whose mothers go to jail as new research shows 95 per cent of them are forced to leave their homes.
A report by the Prison Reform Trust reveals more than 16,000 youngsters were uprooted from their family homes last year because their mothers were sentenced to prison, usually for non-violent crimes.
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