New parents in their 60s have baby taken into care

A COUPLE who became two of the country’s oldest new parents have had their baby taken away from them by social services.

The 63-year-old woman and her partner, 65, are understood to have spent £100,000 at a clinic abroad for a surrogate mother to have their child as they were too old to have treatment in the UK.

But social services reportedly stepped in and removed the baby at the age of one amid concerns about its wellbeing. The parents’ ages are said to have been a factor. The unnamed couple from the North of England had the baby through a surrogate mother in her 30s, using the father’s sperm and a donor egg, before legally adopting it, the Sun on Sunday reported.

‘Social services have been dealing with them since last year and told them to make improvements in how the child was being looked after,’ a source said. ‘They then decided the called-for improvements had not happened and took the child into care.’

The couple, who are said to be ‘ devastated’, are fighting to regain custody and are allowed supervised contact with the child.

The mother and the local council both declined to comment.