Don't Take My Baby

Every year in the UK an estimated 3,000 children are taken from couples judged too disabled to ensure their care. Yet that’s just a statistic – a cold, hard number. It holds little power compared with the story of 21-year-old wheelchair user Anna and her partially sighted partner Tom, who must prove to the social services that they’re able-bodied enough to keep their baby. For any new parent, it’s a whole other dimension of terror.

Based on real-life testimony, Don’t Take My Baby is an impressively intelligent, even-handed drama, one that tackles the issue with humour and warmth, while never patronising disability, nor ignoring its harsh realities.