Welcome to another week.
Politicians in Ireland are calling on their government to launch an inquiry into adoption practices, including forced adoptions and illegal adoptions.
The move comes after several adoption agencies in Ireland were found to have carried out illegal birth registrations and adoptions.
Families in Britain are also reporting incidents of illegal registrations and adoptions, while other families say they are being exposed to inhumane treatment inside the family courts during child welfare proceedings.
That treatment, families say, includes bullying, blackmail and threats from child welfare professionals and judges to comply with social work reports and court orders, which some parents say are not in the best interests of their children.
An inquiry into adoption was carried out by the British Association of Social Work last year, however it focused on the role of social workers within the adoption process and did not investigate whether policies such as forced adoption and current social work practices and culture were genuinely working for the best interests of children inside the system.
Our question this week then, is this: should there be a government inquiry into adoption practices inside England and Wales?
If you are on Twitter, please take our poll on whether an inquiry should be launched.
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There should, indeed, be an Inquiry but this is only second-best. The issues are so important that nothing short of a full public inquiry should be undertaken. I doubt we’ll see either, though. Same with bullying by Judges etc. in the Family Court system. Just look how long it took to get the Inquiry into the tainted blood scandal, with so many dying before it eventually got underway. Too many public figures, especially in Government and the NHS, involved with this, and I believe also in our very flawed adoption system and connected with the Family Court farrago. Slim chance of an inquiry anytime soon.
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Hi Roger, thanks for your comment. Yes, these things take time, but as you say inquiries can and do happen. Sometimes it’s better for these things to happen slowly, so that the pressure becomes impossible to ignore. Groups like RR and many others have sprung up over the last ten years and I can certainly see that pressure building. It’s a collective effort, and I think we will get there.
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Thanks Natasha. I do hope you’re right. And we certainly must keep up the pressure. Never give up. Never, ever give up.
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Simply, follow the money.£££££
Adoption and fostering are big business.
Thousands of children in corporate care being sold for sex, drug dealing.
The enquiry would have to reveal who has shares in the adoption and fostering businesses , etc
Oh what a glorious day that would be for all tax payers.
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until medieval criterium “balance of probabilities” as a reason for removal gone, nothing serious will happen imho
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Not to blow my own trumpet but I consider myself a rational, tolerant and compassionate person. Those that know me would agree. I find myself appalled at the child protection practices and wonder how they ever came into being. Did those that have made the laws & those who implement them ever see the whole picture of devastation they cause, to both families and the children themselves, now or in later life. They seem to operate in a bubble oblivious to the true reality.
Who said it was ever ok to take children from their homes & put them into care or even worse adopt them because they fit the adoptable criteria of cute and under 5!
The majority of kids in care don’t need to be in Care or adopted & would fare better if they were at home, with the family getting support.
I appreciate there are some children whose parents are so evil that for the child’s best interests they are taken away but the majority don’t fit that category. Statistically it doesn’t add up to have over 70 thousand kids in care. That doesn’t include those taken and adopted.
It’s a failure of the government & child protection system that such practices exist. In the future it will be condemned as much as the “Oranges & Sunshine” fiasco that existed until the early 70s. The question is when will these outdated inhumane practices that are so damaging stop? Other Countries don’t apply such draconian practices, why do we?
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Enquiries are a waste of time and money.Abolish forced adoption(against the will of a parent) and stop punishment without crime.
Who needs more?
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Hi Ian, any abolishment requires a process, that is the way of evidence and considered thought.
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Capital punishment was abolished by one swift statute and the same should happen to forced adoption !
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“Our question this week then, is this: should there be an inquiry into adoption practices inside England and Wales?”
Without doubt. Only those with interests best served by protecting the status quo would think otherwise.
And the 1989 Children’s Act also needs an investigative overhaul as it seems that some 30 years after its inception it is no longer fit for purpose – or else those applying it are not doing so with due diligence and are themselves not fit for purpose – either way a national investigation into the Children’s Act is now long overdue.
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Definitely… Without a doubt. Also cafcass needs enquiring as they are the most dangerous people in family court and influences the whole court process putting victims and children in danger. Also, what is the role of child’s solicitor appointed by court who never even meets a child and claims to be representing child. That’s absolutely disgusting and funny.
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Its a very Resounding YES! from me.
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Yes.
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Yes there should be a inquiry on past adoptions … their actions change my life and my sons we will never recover and nor will thousands of others
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In the USA adoption is a multi billion unregulated industry. I lost my son to adoption 53 years ago here in UK. Caused by irregularities, lies, and ,deceits within the adoption. It took my son TEN YEARS to search for me, and he is a lawyer. I see the UK following in similar vein as USA. We as a nation, need to take an in-depth look at the serious implications of such dishonest practice. Adoption is the worst action/transaction in humankind, and should be banished to the annals of history. Herald in KINSHIP CARE, or legal guardianship, adoption is ancestride.
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