Charlotte Wyatt turns three on Saturday. Guess what she's getting for her birthday?

A severely disabled child whose parents fought a long legal battle to ensure she was kept alive is to be placed in foster care because her parents have been judged unfit to look after her.

Brain-damaged Charlotte Wyatt has confounded the predictions of doctors who wanted permission to switch off her life support machine and will turn three on Saturday.

Her parents Darren, 34, and Debbie, 25, ran up a £500,000 legal bill for the taxpayer as they fought for two years in the courts to force the hospital looking after her to ensure she was resuscitated.

Eventually, the Wyatts argued, she could be looked after at home. Their successful legal battle was hailed as a moral triumph by those who believe cost should be no object in keeping a child alive even if they require a lifetime of intensive care.

But despite now being well enough to leave hospital, doctors say she cannot go home to her mother or father as there is no stable two-parent home for her to go to.

Doctors say that neither Mr nor Mrs Wyatt, who both survive on benefits, would on their own be able to provide their daughter with the 24-hour care she needs.

That's right. Her parents, who fought for her and stood up for her when no one else would, are "not fit" to care for her. I blogged about this back in April, and had hoped the issue would have been resolved by now.

You can listen to my opinion on the whole matter in the latest episode of Test Pattern, below, or you can subscribe to it at ISPN Media.

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Charlotte Wyatt has improved so much that she could soon be discharged from hospital.

But the severely-disabled two-year-old is unlikely to be put into the care of her parents.

Darren and Debbie Wyatt, who have fought a long right-to-life battle with doctors over Charlotte's treatment, are no longer living together.

And social services will have to decide whether either of them are able to look after her well enough for her to go home.

If they decide that neither Mrs Wyatt nor Mr Wyatt, who recently took an overdose, could cope, Charlotte would be put into foster care.

After fighting to live for her entire life, the least her parents could do is get their act together so they can provide the best home for Charlotte and her siblings.

The baby at the centre of a legal row over her treatment has improved, doctors have said.

Two-year-old Charlotte Wyatt was said to be on a "downward rather than an upward trend" last week. However, she is now in a stable condition.

A spokeswoman at St Mary's Hospital in Portsmouth said: "She remains stable but has shown encouraging early signs of improvement. We are pleased."

She is showing "early" signs of improvement, but again, to the doctors at St. Mary's, it's just not enough.

Imagine what those "signs of improvement" would look like if doctors had stepped in to help Charlotte like they would have helped any other "normal" child.

Once again, they thought it was futile to help her, so they withheld treatment, and once again, she proves she wants to live.

To the doctors at St. Mary's:Â Keep practicing guys, you need it.

To Charlotte:Â Keep fighting little one!

Do you see a precious life worth fighting for? Or do you see a child who should die?

What has our grand world come to when we can do this, and still walk the streets without shame? How can we pretend we are innocent of a great crime? –for are indeed guilty to if we do not protest. And the measure of a society is in how it treats her most defenseless.

Or if you are a child with special needs, is it only if you can manage to never be ill, never show weakness, always be impoving that you will be considered worth having around? When it comes to the difficult times, will your life never be worth fighting for?

I couldn't have said it better myself. Head on over to Save Charlotte and leave a message of encouragement for Charlotte and her parents.

A judge has ruled that doctors treating toddler Charlotte Wyatt can decide not to resuscitate her if they feel it would not be in her best interests.

The order came after an emergency hearing on Thursday, as Charlotte's condition deteriorated.

She has been suffering from an aggressive virus and doctors say the next few hours are "crucial".

The ruling follows a series of legal battles over the severely-disabled toddler's care.

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But in his latest ruling, Mr Justice Hedley said Charlotte's deterioration meant that circumstances had changed.

Doctors had told the court she had developed a cough, probably caused by a viral infection, a week ago, and was now having difficulties breathing.

Dr K, one of the team treating her – none of whom can be named – told the court that resuscitation would be futile and would "inflict unnecessary pain on this child, who has already suffered as much as she has".

So… Mr. Justice Hedley once again rules that Charlotte Wyatt must die. Big surprise there.

Funny thing though… If it were you or me and we wanted to die, they would not let us. They would do everything they could by "any means necessary" to save our lives… unless of course, we were severely brain damaged and could not tell anyone we wanted to live… or we had a relative like Michael Schiavo… then they would make sure we died. No questions asked.

Well, I still support Charlotte's right to live.

It may not be the life the doctors would want. It may not be the life anyone would choose, but it's life. A very precious one at that.

They once said she would never see her first birthday… now she is two. They said she could not see or hear, but clearly sees and hears. They said she was in constant pain, but her smile showed everyone they were wrong once again… That just goes to show you how much doctors know.

Charlotte Wyatt may be mentally impaired, but her doctors are definitely socially retarded. Be strong little one!