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Birth parents will soon be able to trace their adopted children through intermediaries. But how many will want to? Julia Feast, John Triseliotis, and Fiona Kyle evaluate their study's results [...]

viewpoint The new Adoption and Children Act is the successful culmination of many years campaigning, writes Julia Feast News is not usually good news in social care. One doesn't have [...]

viewpoint The Adoption and Children Bill fails to address the needs of adopted adults and their birth relatives, writes Julia Feast Last month the Department of Health issued a consultation [...]

The law needs to be changed to allow people born as a result of donor-assisted conception to learn about their background, argues Julia Feast, not just for reasons of openness, [...]

Children's agencies and post-adoption counsellors must assess individual cases when deciding whether to help a mother find her adoptive child. The rights of the adoptive child must remain the most important focus in such cases. The UK-based Children's Society deals with parents seeking children who were given up for adoption, although a national intermediary service is not standard throughout the country.

Issues are presented concerning the national standards published by the Department of Health into the treatment of birth parents who have given children up for adoption. The ability of adopted children to contact birth parents is discussed.