A married couple who have a platonic relationship and live in different homes have been made the legal parents of a child born following a foreign surrogacy arrangement. The most
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There is a real need for more LGBT people to adopt or foster children in Wales, Minister for Children and Social Care, Huw Irranca-Davies said today. To mark LGBT Adoption
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On World Social Work Day 2018, what better way for West Sussex County Council to celebrate our work than to invite you to participate in our inaugural conference and explore
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Research headed by a University of Huddersfield professor has caused an influential social work organisation to call for a major review of UK adoption law, so that children who have
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The adoptive mother of a baby who fought for justice after he was so violently assaulted he lost both his legs has told how “horrified” she was to learn his
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A woman who wanted a new partner to adopt her 11-year-old son and dishonestly told a social worker that she did not know who the boy’s father was has been
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The Institute of Public Care (IPC), Oxford Brookes University, has been appointed to conduct a review of the arrangements for commissioning fostering and residential care placements in London. The request
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An academic at the University of Chester is working with a new national charity to improve the lives of looked after children. Insights from evaluative research led by Professor Elizabeth
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Adoption has been a particularly politicised and contentious area of public policy in recent years in the UK, perhaps most particularly in England. Political and ideological perspectives on adoption drive
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A woman who suffered the “unimaginable trauma” of seeing two children die when they were babies must have an 18-month-old daughter taken from her care and placed for adoption even
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