The short version
- In June 2025 Jayne’s Baby Bank told donors it was a “self referal” baby bank, and that mothers sent through a health practitioner “run the risk of being reported to social service”.
- In a live video she said: “The last thing they want is the Gestapo turning up on their doorstep, threatening to take their kids”.
- She wrote: “I AM A QUALIFIED HEALTH PRACTIONER”. She is not on the Nursing and Midwifery Council register, and we found no entry for her on the Social Care Wales register.
- In December 2022 she had said the opposite about social services: “I do get social services ringing up saying they’ve got a family.” Caerphilly social services told us they do not refer families to Jayne’s Baby Bank.
- In the same week she accused other baby banks of starting up because “there was no money left in homelessness”.
In this article
A police visit
At the end of May 2025, Jayne’s Baby Bank, run by Carrie-Anne Ridsdale (who also uses the name Jayne Price), came under fresh scrutiny. In a live video titled “Abuse update” on 30 May 2025 (the post, the recording), she told viewers that police had come to see her the night before because a local woman had reported her for harassment:
Right, so anyway, police came out to see me last night. … I didn’t get arrested. She came to speak to me because … reported me for harassment.
Her video, 30 May 2025 (from a transcript of the recording; a name is cut)
She said she handed the officer a file of the woman’s comments and asked to make a counter-complaint.
According to verified reports at the time, police were involved following allegations of online abuse directed toward a disabled mother and her child. During questioning, she reportedly told police she did not have a Facebook account. Yet in this livestream on Facebook she talked about the police visit herself, apparently contradicting that statement. In June 2025 the matter was under police investigation.
Of more concern is her repeated effort to undermine trust in official safeguarding services. In live videos and posts, she has told mothers to stay away from social services, and offered her own unregulated baby bank instead.
“A self referal baby bank”
On 1 June 2025 her page published this (the post):
Can we remind donators that we are a self referal baby bank and baby and child foodbank. There are many other baby banks but Mothers need a referal from a health practitioner to access and run the risk of being reported to social service. Many of our Mothers have reported to us that after they ask for a referal from a health practioner social services come knocking at their doors asking to check their cupboards for food ect. This puts our Mothers off asking for help. I AM A QUALIFIED HEALTH PRACTIONER, I can make the decision if Mothers need help. … Helping other Mothers provide security for their children without the finacial implications or social services rocking up at the door. Mothers want and need help from other mothers not referals. Please choose wisely who you donate too.
Her page, 1 June 2025
She has also suggested that she can make referrals for social services. Caerphilly social services told us she is not a recognised referral point and has no formal authority to act for them.
“The Gestapo”
In a live video on 3 June 2025 (the post, the recording), she went further:
Like I said, there’s lots of other baby banks. There’s a lot of imitators out there. But they have to go through a healthcare professional. I am a qualified healthcare professional in several different ways, okay? If they go through a healthcare professional, chances are they’re going to be referred to social services at some point for saying they need help. And our mothers don’t want to do that. The last thing they want is the Gestapo turning up on their doorstep, threatening to take their kids, and going through their kitchen cupboard to see what food they got, and counting their nappies. … But, our baby bank is self-referral.
Her video, 3 June 2025 (from a transcript of the recording)
On 6 June 2025 she came back to it in another live video (the post, the recording). Again she gave no evidence of any medical qualification. She repeated that referrals put mothers at risk of social services (“we’ve had the Gestapo turn up at mothers’ houses, open their cupboards and start counting their tins of beans”). She described the set-up in her own words: “there is no middle man, okay? I am the front man and I am the middle man, okay? It is a self-referral system.”
In the same video she accused other baby banks of exploiting families: “Because, obviously, there was no money left in homelessness, so they thought they’d rape the system and do a baby bank to try and knock us off the pedestal.” She called her own operation “so honest”.
She also conceded a point that undoes her own pitch: “If I feel that somebody needs a referral to social services, yes, I can make a referral. So can you. So can Joe Public make a referral to social services. You don’t have to be a qualified individual to do that, okay?”
“A qualified health practioner”
Carrie-Anne Ridsdale is not a registered nurse or midwife in the UK. A search of the Nursing and Midwifery Council register and the Social Care Wales register finds no entry for her. Despite her repeated claims, she has never published proof of any qualification or registration. We set out her nursing degree claim and her changing academic record in full, and nine NHS bodies told us they have no record of Jayne’s Baby Bank. Her classroom claims are checked here.
On 18 July 2023 she posted (the post):
School reports due out. Don’t worry – GCSE’s – don’t worry. I went to Uni at 39 and got my degree and diploma in nursing and bio chem! … and now I’m doing a PHD and running a charity. I was accepted to every Uni I applied to with unconditiona offers.
Her page, 18 July 2023
A biochemistry degree in the UK normally needs A levels in chemistry and biology, then several years of study at an accredited university. There is no public record of her qualifications in this field, or of any PhD.
In January 2025 she wrote: “Jayne’s Baby Bank is a qualified baby bank. I don’t need a social worker to tell me you need help”. By putting mothers off social services while presenting herself as a qualified authority, she offers an illusion of expertise. That may leave mothers at risk without access to trained professionals and regulated support.
“Profit protection”
Her work history changes too. On 20 September 2022, advertising for volunteer shop managers, she wrote (the post):
I was a retail manager and profit protection adviser for 20 plus years, training provided.
Her page, 20 September 2022
Eight weeks later the 20 years had become 25, and the role had grown (the post):
I worked as a profit protection officer (which is second to CEO – I told the company how to make profits and where they were losing them), for one of the largest companies in the world for 25 years plus I work in the social and health care systems. I know exactly what I am doing.
Her page, 13 November 2022
Why those dates do not add up is explained in the Wall of Shame.
“Social services ringing up”
Using our transcript search, we found what she said in a live video on 29 December 2022 (the recording):
We do have a referral system. We do get people ringing up. I do get social services ringing up saying they’ve got a family. And I always tell them to contact me themselves because I don’t like going through the social work
Her video, 29 December 2022 (from a transcript of the recording)
We asked Caerphilly social services again. They confirmed that they do not refer families to Jayne’s Baby Bank. If statements like these are made knowing they are false, they mislead donors and the families who come for help, and may put families at risk because no trained person is overseeing their care.
Sources
- Her posts, from our archive: 20 September 2022, 13 November 2022, 18 July 2023, 22 January 2025 and 1 June 2025. Spelling is as published; “…” marks a cut.
- Her videos, kept by us on the Internet Archive: 29 December 2022, 30 May 2025, 3 June 2025 and 6 June 2025. Quotes come from transcripts of the recordings; a private person’s name is cut.
- Registers: the Nursing and Midwifery Council and Social Care Wales. Caerphilly social services answered our questions directly.
- Our other reports: referral backing denied by social services, the nursing degree, the academic record, nine NHS bodies, her classroom claims and the Wall of Shame. The overview: the Sherlock Dossier.
- Updated in November 2026. The opening now gives her own account of the police visit, from her 30 May 2025 video; the earlier wording, from reports we cannot show, has been removed. Quotes have been checked against the posts and transcripts.
- This article is based on public statements, posts and videos by people connected with Jayne’s Baby Bank. Commentary by Sherlock is for public-interest reporting and education. No legal or clinical conclusions should be drawn from it alone. Readers should check the official sources and take professional advice where needed.
…Sherlock
