A new survey produced by Taken UK, a support group for parents going through the family courts founded by Jacque Courtnage, aims to better understand how care proceedings resulting in adoption orders have affected birth families in Britain.
The open survey is made up of 18 questions, including:
- Prior to a care order being enacted on your child/children, were you offered or did you receive help from these early help provisions by being signposted to them by a social worker?
- Once the adoption order was made, were you offered any support to deal with loss, coping strategies and everything associated with losing a child to adoption?
- If you had other children that have remained with you, where any of them offered any support to help cope knowing they have a sibling in adoption?
- Has any organisation offered to help you reunite with your adopted child once they have reached the age of 18?
- Would you want to reunite with your adopted child in the future?
Another open survey, which was published several weeks ago by adoptees Paul Brian Tovey and Suzanne Davies, investigates adoptee experiences in the UK, and has gathered almost 100 responses since it started running. The questions in this survey include:
- Was your adoption as a UK adoptee negative or positive?
- Were you abused by your adopters as a child?
- Do you wish to revoke your adoption order?
- If your adoptee status was terminated, would you want to revert to your birth or other identity?
- Was there any therapy in the UK specific for your adult adoptee needs?
You can access and fill out the birth family support survey here
You can find the adoptee survey here
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This had to be done .i.e Parent-surveys … Measurements of “care order” reality and why care orders were dashed for really needs to be examined .. There is likely to be finally seen a reckless “forced Adoption” wave or set of waves that were set into place by lack of “early help” methods ..
That term “Early help” is at the bottom of page 34 of Josh Mcallisters “Case For Change” ..
It’s a deeply under-analysed area and thus is likely to be the poison arrow pointing to inter-departmental incoherence of approach and badly rolled out applications for help .. Social Workers have failed here too ..They are not flaggers up enough of the bad systems approach .. Their failure is apparent too in their BASW 2018 report on ethics and forced adoptions … Their sampling of people was very loss and inadequate .. Their UNI professors guiding them need to questioned heavily for what was a “self soothing report” ..
MAJOR reporting by Social Workers should have done about incoherences of early help systems.. That were supposed to be there but in all likelihood were not ..That places the Govt nearer to “Ultra Vires” territory .. For not doing that which should have been done .. The dodgey dances around this will be many though .. Grease is the word.. Tovey Rivers and his feral cats says so ..
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I don’t want ‘support’. I want my children released home to where they belong.
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Yesssss .. The pain is sooo awful .. It is awful too on the other side of the equation .. I am an Adoptee and I really sympathise with the pains of such great losses. I can never recover from them . I am fighting too alongside Parents for better justice . I believe in it.
We have to show by survey means what parents missed out on and how many missed out .. We have to show that .. To make people’s voices joined up and become a greater power together .. We have no choice but to combine now and show collective pain , uinmet needs and truth.. Even we Adoptees have had enough of the pain the courts and others have created ..
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Forced adoption should be banned ! No need for patronising “support” then .
Forced adoption (adoption contested by a parent ) did not exist until the horrible Children Act 1989.It should be consigned to the dustbins of history without delay.
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No offence to you Natasha, but I think that this survey is pointless, is it going to help frantically distraught children and parents to reunite, I think not.
The severity of the pain and suffering that this wicked system of forced adoption, has and is still causing, innocent men, women and children, Mark my words will be one of the main downfalls, or the reason why the overthrowing of this country will come to pass.
The Bible states that acts of supreme evil and wickedness committed by any great nation, will surely reep what it has soan and in the case if this wicked nation that will mean it’s complete destruction, Amen.
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