{"id":666113,"date":"2026-06-30T13:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666113\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T13:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:44:11","slug":"families-demand-full-inquiry-as-review-finds-englands-maternity-system-failing-women-and-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666113\/","title":{"rendered":"Families demand full inquiry as review finds England’s maternity system failing women and babies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bereaved mother says she is ‘absolutely not’ satisfied with reviewpublished at 08:56 BST<\/p>\n

08:56 BST<\/p>\n

\"Lauren<\/p>\n

Parents who gave evidence to the National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation, are speaking to BBC Breakfast this morning.<\/p>\n

Asked what brings her here today, Lauren Caulfield, whose daughter Grace died in the days before her birth, says she wants “children to stop dying”.<\/p>\n

On the review published today, Lauren says she is “absolutely not” satisfied, arguing that it is “fundamentally dangerous” to implement a maternity commissioner that she believes would not be “meaningfully independent”.<\/p>\n

Instead, like a number of others, she calls for a statutory public inquiry “to understand exactly what has gone wrong” and “who has been responsible”.<\/p>\n

\"Peter<\/p>\n

Also speaking to BBC Breakfast are Gina and Peter Reeves, who are asked about the review’s finding of racism “embedded throughout the maternity and neonatal system”.<\/p>\n

Gina explains that when she was giving birth to her son, who died, she “was told that I didn’t look like I was in pain”.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t scream, I didn’t shout, but my whole body went into shock mode and nobody listened to me.”<\/p>\n

Peter says he is “not surprised” by the report’s findings, but adds that “it’s not just what, it’s what we do next” – and urges politicians to come together in order to improve outcomes for families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bereaved mother says she is ‘absolutely not’ satisfied with reviewpublished at 08:56 BST 08:56 BST Parents who gave…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-666113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}