Adam recently went up to Blackpool to see Claire and her daughter Ellie-May.

As part of a project Adam did with Save the Children on the effects of austerity on some of the poorest communities in the UK he met up with Claire and Sean and their new born daughter Ellie-May.

Both Claire and Sean had had a very tough life dealing with drug addition and and were both desperate to break the cycle and finally have a family. Ellie-May was Claire's 7th child. Five of her previous children had been taken away by social services, the other child being still born.

Adam had struck up a close relationship with them and visited them in Keighley several times and things were going well until Sean had a problem keeping off the drugs. Social Services found out and told Claire that unless she left Sean they would once again take her child from her. This meant Claire had to go into hiding in a woman's shelter leaving Sean alone. Three months later Sean committed suicide.

Claire started a new life with Ellie-May in Blackpool and this is her story.