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Children's safety is being compromised by parental contact arrangements, a Community Care conference heard last week. 'Contact - not safety - is now paramount,' said Marianne Hester, professor of gender, [...]

The national adoption register found placements for 40 per cent more children in the year to November 2006 compared with the previous year. Figures released this week by the British [...]

The prime minister has set out his view of the Catholic position on the Equality Act but social care bodies have been more reluctant to speak out. Helen McCormack and [...]

A lack of capacity in the court system and the introduction of new legislation have been blamed for the failure to meet a key national adoption target. The government's overarching [...]

Councils must provide post-adoption support but is this being applied evenly across the UK, asks Diana Gollop The multiple needs of children adopted from the care system makes post-placement support [...]

More children are being placed by the national adoption register, including its first group of four siblings. Baaf Adoption and Fostering, which has run the register since December, has matched [...]

The government has confirmed a change in the adoption register's operator and referral system. The Department for Education and Skills said Baaf Adoption and Fostering would take over the register [...]

A prosecution lawyer has attacked the adoption system that placed a three-year-old boy with a married couple who are accused of killing him. Ian and Angela Gay of Halesowen, West [...]

Baaf Adoption and Fostering may advertise children on a website. The move is intended to increase the number of matches between children and permanent parents. Currently one in four children [...]

There is no doubt that the adoption register could achieve more. But before Baaf Adoption and Fostering takes it over, it is worth re-examining what, realistically, we should ask of [...]

Future adoptive families are missing the chance to be matched with children by being too prescriptive, a leading adoption charity has warned. Jennifer Cousins, a consultant at the Baaf Adoption [...]

Government policies to increase the number of adoptions may be neither desirable nor achievable, a study commissioned by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (Scie) has found. Scie's knowledge review [...]