Mixed-race adoption policy gets new guidelines

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12513403

White couples should be allowed to adopt black and ethnic minority children under new guidelines for social workers in England.

Many children from ethnic minorities do not get adopted because social workers have been keen to place them with families of the same background.

Sounds like a plan..and a vote for common sense.

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

Being with foster parents has to be better than in a children's home as a ward of state with all the costs that involves.

... and being in an adoptive home is better than being in a foster home, which is often actually several foster homes during the course of a child's growing up and also involves regular interference by Social Services, because in a foster home the State is still the legal guardian.

There seems to be an institutional bias against adoption in this country. Social Services departments up and down the country think they know best and are very reluctant to let go. Placing children in foster care means Social Services retains influence. Allowing the child to be adopted means they lose influence.

I'm very glad to see that one of the excuses they use for preferring fostering arrangements is now being removed.

I suspect though that they will find another excuse..