I wanted to make clear about the children being taken away.... this is how I understand the sequence.
Janipher was thrown out onto the streets, by Social Services, after the Home Office instructed them she was no longer entitled to anything.
She became distressed, in a park, with 2 week old Colin, and 13 months old Chantelle, in her arms. No food, no where to sleep, when she begged for help she was thrown out of Social Services offices by security guards.
Crying her eyes out, passers-by observed her in the park, and called the police. The police arrested her, and removed the children and locked her in a cell. They took all her clothes and gave her one of those night gown things.
The children were checked at a hospital, and found to be in perfect health and well cared for.
meanwhile, the police had a specialist assess Janipher. he stated she had to removed from the prison cell, and taken to somewhere safe, and that she was fit for the children to be returned to her.
So, it was perfectly acceptable for the kids to be taken away for 24 hours, whilst they were checked for harm, and while Janipher was checked. Although it was not reasonable for her to be left with milk engorged breasts and no pump or help, in those 24 hours.
Now, as I understand it, Janipher should have been re-united with the children there and then.
What actually happened, was that she was kept in the cell, without clothing, in the same nightdress, bleeding from the birth and dripping milk from her breasts ... for a further three days. Denied permission to shower.
She was then shipped to Yarl's Wood. Without the children. Still no lactation support. Ten days later, she got the message through to Black Women's Rape Action Project - and they posted widely - and we all kicked off.
There was never any doubt that Janipher was not both capable of taking care of the babies, or had, in fact, taken excellent care of them. Chantelle and she had been booted onto the streets by Social Services before she gave birth - and even on the streets, begging for food, Janipher took such good care of Chantelle, that it was noted in the report, how well cared for she was.
Janipher is insistent, that everyone knows, she has always taken care excellent care of the children.
So if you see anyone suggesting those children were not in perfect health and evidently extrememly well cared for by their mother... jump!