The child is not property. The child is a human, and has human rights. Those rights are protected. The child has his own independent legal representation to look after its best interests.
This system has been tested by international courts -in Europe- and they've found it works to protect the rights of the child.
> You know, like the Vatican offered,
No. The vatican offered the same end of life care he was getting, with the additional burden of a long difficult journey.
> A child like Alfie is given free medical care from one of many charity hospitals
I've already linked a page in this thread that shows this to be false.
You keep saying "government", but the UK government wasn't involved in any of the cases (apart from the EU ones).