These very welcome reforms will bring contact between adopted children and their birth parents much closer to the practice in fostering where contact with birth family is commonplace.
This modernisation of adoption is long overdue. It is the most draconian of state interventions in family life and the recommended reforms appear to be empathetic, child centred and reflect modern realities. Adoption numbers are in long term decline and these reforms will not change that but they will be transformative for the children for whom adoption is the best option.
Foster care is already the permanence option for 75% of children in the care system and is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. It offers stability, consistency, care and love and can, and does, deliver fantastic outcomes for children. Families considering adoption might instead look to fostering as an option.
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