Mark Lloyd-Selby is a senior social work practitioner who offers a personal perspective on how adoption cases are handled in the United Kingdom. His letter is written in response to an article by Kate Hilpern title Unfit to be a Mother, in which she questions the adoption system.

"Within Hilpern's article Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming presents the results [of new adoption performance indicators] as being rather different from the intention: 'What you wind up with is social workers under pressure to achieve targets.'... Neither my colleagues nor myself are aware of the targets Hemming refers to."

Selby goes on to assure readers that social workers can't be "steamrollered" into supporting an adoption. Read more at Guardian.co.uk.

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Labels: childrens_rights, adoption_rights, social_workers

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