Welcome to another week.
A state in the US has decided to stop pushing adoption as the gold standard for children in care after it found that the policy pitted foster carers against birth families.
In a pioneering U-turn, the state of West Virginia has now implemented a completely different model, which sees foster parents working with natural parents so they can be reunified with their children.
Our question then, is just this: do you think England and Wales should adopt the model too?
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It could not be more obvious that if the very people who are looking after the child want to adopt the child they are not going to be supportive of the child returning to their family. Add to that the lies about the parents that social workers tell foster carers (I stupidly admitted to smoking a spliff in Amsterdam 2 decades before my child was born and the foster carer was told I was a drug user) and the children chances of ever going home are the minute they enter ‘care.’
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The lies told by Social workers and F/carers is a huge problem that is almost impossible to tackle. it would take Ci5 or Mi5 to uncover the criminal behaviour going on inside Councils and the Family courts.thats how bad it is.
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Well Yessiree Natash – it should spread to the UK !!! .. Anything to ameliorate the pain of birth parents and some children too .. This is a good start and trends away from full severance/Adoption …
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Basically, yes! But not before the West Virginia ‘experiment’ has revealed the inevitable ‘unintended consequences’ of such a scheme. I think we should follow the story very closely and avoid a knee-jerk reaction. I hope it’s successful.
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Yes. absolutely 100%.
it wont be one size fits all but it will vastly reduce the amount of children wrongly kept in care till they are 18 against the parents wishes.
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