Forced adoption of newborns

More than 900 newborn babies are now being taken from their mothers each year, a 300 per cent increase in little more than a decade. The number of children aged between a week and a month removed from their parents has risen to 1,300 annually, a rise of 141 per cent in the same time.

In the past two weeks alone, eight newborn babies have been taken from their mothers at hospitals in Newcastle and North Tyneside. The number is so high there are not enough foster parents in the area. One baby - thought to be the ninth taken from its parents - is being cared for in a special hospital unit because there is no foster home available.

Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming has demanded an explanation.

He said: "We are seeing a massive increase in the forced removal of newborns. Babies are being taken before they can even be breastfed. Social workers are seizing very young children on the flimsiest of excuses and giving them to other families.

"This smacks of social engineering on a grand scale. The offer of monetary rewards for meeting the targets has created a frenzy among social workers. There are council targets for recycling rubbish and now targets for recycling children."

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"The Adoption and Children Act 2002 has been amended to give the Secretary of State the power to remove certain functions of the adoption agency from all Local Authorities and will take effect in March 2015. It had been expected that this might happen only for those Local Authorities who were not meeting their adoption targets."

"These functions include the recruitment, assessment and approval of adopters and matching of adopters to children. Once the amendments to the Act come into force any of these functions can be given over to private adoption agencies."

Good for the adoption industry perhaps but ominous for vulnerable families.

http://suesspiciousminds.com/2014/03/18/if-you-cant-do-what-youre-told-the-minister-will-take-your-role-away-from-you/