The British Association for Adoption and Fostering (also known as BAAF) has closed with immediate effect. According to Caroline Selkirk, CEO of BAAF, this is due to “significant changes and prevailing economic conditions”. Some of the charity’s functions will now be carried out by the UK’s oldest children’s charity Coram and by an entirely new body…
Adoption agencies are to receive government funding from the Department of Education to match families to children placed for adoption. The funding, worth £ 4.5 million, will transform and streamline the care system by grouping all local authorities into a designated adoption agencies based on their region. Around 5,000 children were matched with adoptive families…
Sir James Munby has called the lack of court interpreters in an adoption case “unacceptable”. The President of the Family Division adjourned the case in which two Slovak speaking parents were seeking leave to oppose the adoption of their two children. Capita provides business services to both the public and private sectors. Their Justice and…
A judge has ruled that a baby must be adopted, partly because the father refuses to give it a name. Mrs Justice Parker ruled that the five-month-old baby boy should be put into care after she heard how the father had punched a male social worker several times at a previous court hearing and had…
A baby who was removed from its Mother after a forced caesarean is to be adopted. The mother, who is an Italian national, was sectioned after suffering “paranoid delusions” while she was on a work training scheme in the UK in December last year. The then-pregnant 35 year-old woman suffered a panic attack at her…
The government-funded information site First4Adoption has attracted more than 96,000 users in its first 12 months. The website received 94,752 visits in the 12 months since it opened last April, and an additional 2,000 plus people contacted its information line to discuss adoption. Of those visits and enquiries, 6,800 went on to contact a local…
Report finds that data on both foster children and carers is routinely emailed between agencies and local authorities with no security safeguards in place. By Chereece Mark According to the findings from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), fostering and voluntary adoption agencies do not always protect sensitive and personal information with computer encryption. Fostering and…