A baby girl found abandoned in a shopping bag in east London earlier this year has two siblings who were found in similar circumstances in 2017 and 2019, it can
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A father has been found guilty of murdering his two-year-old adopted daughter who died after he “bashed her head against a wall”. Jan Gholami and his wife Roqia Ghulami have
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A foster carer has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 17 years after murdering a one-year-old child she was in the process of adopting. Katie Tidmarsh
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Misconceptions including being single or too old are said to be putting people off fostering at a time of dire need for more carers, as Olympian Fatima Whitbread and poet
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Paralympic champion Ellie Simmonds has revealed she was given up for adoption when she was two weeks old, as she tracked down her birth mother for a new documentary. The
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The Welsh Government has formally apologised for the heartbreak caused by forced adoptions during the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Deputy social services minister Julie Morgan made the apology in the
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An emotional Nicola Sturgeon has issued a “sincere, heartfelt and unreserved” apology to the thousands of women in Scotland who were forced to give up their babies for adoption. The
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The number of foster carers in Scotland has fallen, figures show. The fostering and adoption statistical report for 2021-22 from the Care Inspectorate shows there were 3,415 approved foster care
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The Fostering and Adoption statistical report 2021-22 is based on data collected by the Care Inspectorate from service providers in their annual returns over the last five years from 2017
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Jimmy Akingbola has called for better visibility of children in Britain’s care system after reflecting on his own experience for an upcoming project. In a new documentary for ITV, Jimmy
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