An independent Ombudsman could be appointed to investigate cases in which social workers and the courts are accused of taking children from their homes without justification.
Tim Loughton Photo: UPPA
Patrick Sawer 8:30AM GMT 06 Mar 2011
Tim Loughton, the children’s minister, is considering the landmark step after he grew concerned over a number of cases where children have been wrongly taken and placed for adoption. (more…)
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Who could forget the Kilshaws? Solicitor husband Alan and his wife Judith, who, in 2001 BOUGHT mixed race twins from a ‘baby broker’ in the US for £8,200, and then went on the run from UK social services.
The babies were eventually returned to the US, where a judge branded the Kilshaws ‘media obsessed’ and with no interest in the children’s welfare.
A decade on, and Judith Kilshaw is back in the news. Having divorced husband Alan, she has gone on to marry her toy-boy lover, Steven Sillett, 13 years her junior. And now she wants to ‘cement’ their relationship with a baby. (more…)
A BRITISH couple had the perfect Christmas present when the Spanish authorities overruled a forced adoption order in the UK.
Valencia social services decided to give the couple’s 10-month-old baby Daniel back, despite Suffolk council insisting they were psychologically ‘unfit’. (more…)
About 50 children were given up for adoption without official sanction.
GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan Supreme Appellate Court on Wednesday took strong exception to a Gilgit-based NGO Sina Health and Welfare society accused of sending nearly 50 children abroad for adoption over the years without fulfilling legal formalities. The children were sent without birth certificates. (more…)
THE gran of Madonna’s adopted daughter has threatened to kill herself unless the child is returned to Africa.
Mercy, now four, joined the 52-year-old superstar’s family after a lengthy legal battle. (more…)
By Martyn Halle 10/10/2010
Hundreds of heartbroken parents who claim social services “stole” their children have launched a legal bid to win them back.
The 500 mums and dads say it is impossible to get justice in the UK and have turned to an international court. (more…)
Source: http://www.emirates247.com
An evil pair try to sell baby for Dh203,442f
Published Sunday, September 26, 2010
The fixer also promised a fake birth certificate for the child. (SUPPLIED)
A baby trade racket in the UK was busted by an undercover investigation carried out by the News of the World. (more…)
By MATTHEW REVILLE
Published on Mon Sep 13 09:01:54 BST 2010
A MAN has failed in his appeal against Peterborough City Council’s decision to put his daughter up for adoption.
The Civil Appeal Court in London ruled that the council’s adoption order was valid despite objections by the child’s father.
The man, who is in his 20s but cannot be named, has a history of violence against the girl’s mother and his daughter was placed in foster care immediately after her birth due to social workers’ concerns about both her parents.
Peterborough County Court upheld the council’s adoption plan for his daughter in May. (more…)
