Adoption
Commons · Question 7239 · Tabled 4 Oct 2024 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 11 Oct 2024
Question
Asked by Freddie van Mierlo
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Third Report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights of Session 2022-23 on The Violation of Family Life: Adoption of Children of Unmarried Women 1949-1976, HC270, published on 6 July 2022,
Answer
Answered by Janet Daby, 11 Oct 2024
The department has the deepest sympathy with everyone affected by historic forced adoption. The practice was abhorrent and should never have taken place. The department is committed to supporting adopted adults. Regulations have already been changed to ma...