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How social services are paid
bonuses to snatch babies for adoption
SUE REID
UK
Daily Mail
Friday February 1, 2008
For a mother, there can be no greater horror than having a baby
snatched away by the State at birth.
The women to whom it has happened say their lives are ruined
for ever - and goodness knows what longterm effect it has on the
child.
Most never recover from this trauma.
Imagine a baby growing in your body for nine months, imagine
going through the emotion of bringing it into the world, only
to have social workers seize the newborn, sometimes within minutes
of its first cry and often on the flimsiest of excuses.
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Yet this disturbing scenario is played out every day.
The number of babies under one month old being taken into care
for adoption is now running at almost four a day (a 300 per cent
increase over a decade).
In total, 75 children of all ages are being removed from their
parents every week before being handed over to new families.
Some of these may have been willingly given up for adoption,
but critics of the Government's policy are convinced that the
vast majority are taken by force.
Time and again, the mothers say they are innocent of any wrongdoing.
Of course, there are people who are not fit to be parents and
it is the duty of any responsible State to protect their children.
But over the five years since I began investigating the scandal
of forced adoptions, I have found a deeply secretive system which
is too often biased against basically decent families.
I have been told of routine dishonesty by social workers and
questionable evidence given by doctors which has wrongly condemned
mothers.
Meanwhile, millions of pounds of taxpayers' money has been given
to councils to encourage them to meet high Government targets
on child adoptions.
Under New Labour policy, Tony Blair changed targets in 2000 to
raise the number of children being adopted by 50 per cent to 5,400
a year.
The annual tally has now reached almost 4,000 in England and
Wales - four times higher than in France, which has a similar-sized
population.
Blair promised millions of pounds to councils that achieved the
targets and some have already received more than £2million
each in rewards for successful adoptions.
Figures recently released by the Department for Local Government
and Community Cohesion show that two councils - Essex and Kent
- were offered more than £2million "bonuses" over
three years to encourage additional adoptions.
Full
article here.
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