More Words, Deeper Hole

We don't have much information yet about the mother's family situation, other than that it seems that her other two children were removed from her care by the Italian authorities and placed with the maternal grandmother. There will certainly have been detailed investigations into arranging kinship care; I am speculating here, but perhaps the Italian authorities reported that grandmother couldn't cope with another child, and there weren't other family members able to offer care. There has been some discussion of a relative in the USA offering care, but again we don't know why this route was rejected (but having been involved in similar cases I can say that it must have been rejected for a reason.)

Removal of children from parents in England is governed by the Children Act 1989, and this makes it clear that the interests of the child are paramount. This child was born in England and the courts aren't going to go "Huh, some other country's problem, deport it" when considering her rights.

Placement outside the family is the last resort option for the family courts when dealing with children taken into care. But there is ample evidence that it is damaging for children to be moved from one family to another, and so the approach in England is to seek a permanent outcome (return to parent, placement with family, placement for adoption) relatively quickly rather than allowing a child to spend years in what may be a series of temporary placements waiting to see if it is possible to return that child to the parent(s).