"A couple were told that their five children could be taken away by social services – because the father left their two-year-old alone in a car for just five minutes. Julie and Tim Haines came within a 'hair's breadth' of losing their children after he left their daughter while he popped in to buy Calpol at a chemist's."
"Mr Haines, 50, returned to be confronted by two police officers who told him he should not have left his toddler in the car. The family law advocate was subsequently charged with child neglect and his five children placed on a protection register. His wife Julie lost her job as head of music at a private school in Worcester as a result of the proceedings."
"And the couple spent a year fighting to lift the threat of having the children removed by social services – in what they now describe as a 'life-changing and horrible experience'. "
"Mrs Haines said: 'We won, but we came within a hair's breadth of losing our children."
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