Scotland’s new children’s minister has said she will meet with campaigners calling for the Government to apologise to women who were forced to give up their babies for adoption. Clare
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A couple who lost both their children to rare illnesses have become foster parents to honour one of their son’s final wishes. Karen and Paul Ledsham (pictured), from St Helens,
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A teenage mother who was adopted at the age of six after suffering neglect has won a court fight with a council over whether blood relatives should be assessed as
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A single foster parent who gave a home to a child in 2020 has said other prospective carers should not feel put off by the pandemic. Following a “childhood dream”,
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Council social services staff have been criticised by a judge over the way they dealt with a deaf woman embroiled in a family court dispute over her two children. Deputy
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A woman whose son was taken from her at one of Ireland’s mother and baby homes after she was transferred across the border has said any Stormont apology must be
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The number of children adopted from care in England has fallen for the fifth year running as numbers of looked-after children continue to rise, new figures show. There were 3,440
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Two thirds of adults open to adoption would consider caring for a child of a different ethnicity if they received extra support, a survey has found. Some 34% of UK
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Councils make it harder for families who rent – or who are not “a perfect ethnic match” – to adopt, leaving children being “bounced around the system” waiting for a
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An adopted teenager duped his autistic brother into accessing material about so-called Islamic State on the dark web and then turned him in to police, causing the family home to
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