Category Archives: Adoption

Guardian article on alternative approaches to adoption

Guardian article on alternative approaches to adoption

Interesting article on adoption, as well as more imaginative approaches to ‘placement’. Continue reading

Leave a Comment

Filed under Adoption

An interesting US statistic on adopted teens

This is really an afterthought on a previous blog on facebook undermining adoptions, but after a few minutes of early new year idle googling, I’ve discovered an interesting statistic from an American Website that makes reference to a book by … Continue reading

Leave a Comment

Filed under Adoption

Facebook undermines adoption placements ?

The Times continues with its campaign for swifter adoptions today, highlighting concerns that adoptive placements are being derailed by birth parents making contact with their children via facebook  The article also contains an interesting statistic from research by the British … Continue reading

3 Comments

Filed under Adoption

Injunctions preventing local authorities from placing children for adoption

I had always thought that, once the court had awarded a placement order to a local authority, that was effectively game over so far as proceedings were concerned. Quite wrong, apparently, as is made clear in Coventry CC v PGO … Continue reading

2 Comments

Filed under Adoption