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Sunday 12 January 2014

Adoption targets in Essex

John Hemming, Liberal Democrat MP for Birmingham Yardley has stated in the Birmingham Post that we must change the way family courts are run: Speaking about the case of the Italian woman who was forced to have a caesarean section before her baby was taken he says:
Family law, particularly when it involves more than one country, is a complex issue involving a number of very sensitive issues. However, the machinery has been hidden away and is only now partially coming to the surface.
I know... that Essex have an adoption target. In their corporate plan of 2012/3 it was 12 per cent of the children in care and they were below target. Previously they were paid £2,469,200 by the Blair government for increasing adoptions.

 photo Guardian October 2010

Hence when it comes to the care plan it is clear that the local authority employees are under a lot of pressure to propose a care plan for adoption.
It is in fact only the younger children that can be adopted. Nationally a very high proportion of the children that leave care under five do so through adoption.

http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/business/legal/john-hemming-must-change-way-6496273?fb_action_ids=10153722842940254&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%5B448615781905616%5D&action_type_map=%5B%22og.likes%22%5D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D

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