Northern Ireland Health Minister, Michelle O’Neill, has launched a 12 week public consultation on a draft Adoption and Children Bill. The Bill will modernise the legal framework for adoption in
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The Department of Health published a statistical bulletin summarising information on care leavers in the north of Ireland who left care during the year ending 31 March 2016. Care Leavers
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A family and friends foster carer who took on three vulnerable children after their mother was unable to care for them, failed to get council support for the arrangement for
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Many inspirational figures in popular culture – from Harry Potter to Superman – were fostered, adopted or institutionalised as youngsters. Wider recognition of this could help to dispel prejudice against
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Police and social services staff have come under fire from a High Court judge who said there were systemic flaws in a joint investigation relating to two children. Mr Justice
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Two children were taken from their mother’s care after social workers raised concerns about her inability to provide behaviour boundaries. The woman’s seven-year-old son has gone into foster care and
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A Northamptonshire mother was separated from her adopted child for almost five years because of faults in a social worker’s assessment, the Local Government Ombudsman has said. The child had
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A national shortage of foster care places has been identified as a major concern for councils caring for increasing numbers of refugee children. Town halls have seen a jump in
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A three-year-old girl whose parents cannot look after her should be brought up by a foster carer rather than a relative, a family court judge has ruled. Judge Stephen Wildblood
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Two sisters whose Hungarian parents have returned to Hungary should be adopted in England, a High Court judge has ruled. The girls, now four and three, had lived in England
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