Publications

Please find below a list of our publications:

Consultations

Children’s Social Care, Education Committee Report September 2025 – Together with the Disabled Mothers’ Rights Campaign we gave evidence to Parliament’s Education Committee’s Inquiry into children’s social care in January 2025. ‘Much of the evidence also highlighted the relationship between poverty and neglect, and we heard some concerns about children being taken into care on the grounds of poverty, defined as neglect.[Support Not Separation, Disabled Mothers’ Rights Campaign page 66]

Disabled Children’s Social Care Report September 2025 – In January 2025 SNS and the Disabled Mothers’ Rights Campaign contributed evidence to the Law Commission on disabled children and social services. Our evidence here showed how disabled children are not only more likely to be taken into “care” but that their mothers are targets for parental blame such as Fabricated Induced illness (FII).

Evidence on Expert Witnesses September 2025 – Our evidence to the Family Procedure Rule Committee consultation on the use of expert witnesses in family court says: “Experts are called on in family court to give opinions on Parental Alienation (PA) and on Fabricated Induced Illness (FII).

Evidence to the Public Accounts Committee on Improving family court services for Children September 2025 – “Our evidence on improving family court services for children focuses on the role of Children’s and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (CAFCASS), which is supposed to look after the interests of children whose parents are going through family court proceedings in England.

Human Rights of children in social care in England August 2025 – waiting to publish

Evidence to House of Lords on The Autism Act 2009 June 2025 – We submitted jointly with the Disabled Mothers’ Rights Campaign and had meetings with autistic women whose experience we have included in our evidence. We noticed there was nothing on family courts and social services so we focused our evidence on these topics.

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill Lords Briefing 1 May 2025 – We are urging politicians to speak out against measures in this Bill aimed at greatly extending state control over children’s and families’ lives – the opposite of protecting children’s wellbeing!  It will further undermine children’s right to the love and care of their mother and our right to be together as a family, and to be supported in doing so.

Evidence to Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill February 2025 – We don’t agree with most of the Bill which would extend the corporate parent by bring in more professionals, introduce a “consistent identifier” for all children, and restrict the right to homeschool.

Evidence to the Education Committee February 2024 – Joint submission on Children’s Social Care to Parliament’s Education Committee, by Support Not Separation & Disabled Mothers’ Rights Campaign January 2024.

Evidence to the Sentencing Council December 2023 – We welcome the opportunity to comment on sentencing guidelines for pregnant and post-natal women. We also want to comment on sentencing policy more generally as it relates to women, mothers in particular.