Two children born in England after their parents were trafficked from Slovakia should be placed for adoption in England, a High Court judge has decided. Mr Justice Baker said it
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Dan Hughes is a leading authority on dyadic developmental psychotherapy and has integrated recent research on the neurobiology of trauma, early child development and attachment. During one of his
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Specialist family lawyers have raised fears about parents with learning difficulties being held to a “different and more onerous” standard of parenting. Their concerns have emerged in a senior family
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Courts and councils will have to give top priority to adoption for children in care in the future, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has confirmed. The law is to be changed
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A leading judge says he is “acutely conscious” of concerns voiced in parts of Europe about the “forced adoption” of children in England and Wales. Sir James Munby, the most
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The adoption process will be speeded up to end the “tragedy” of children waiting for long periods to be placed with a new family, David Cameron has announced. The Prime
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A major overhaul of the adoption system is needed to cut the eight month time lag endured by children between being given a placement order and joining a new family,
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The parents of a baby taken into care at six weeks old and later adopted have vowed to “fight till our last breath” to be reunited with their child after
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More children in Wales are being adopted with fewer in the care of local authorities, new statistics published by the Welsh Government show. According to the figures, on 5,617 children
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A little boy could be taken from the prospective adopters he has lived with since he was a day old and handed to grandparents with whom he has “no relationship”,
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