I've done a lot of thinking about Tim Loughton's recent suggestion that the current emphasis on ethnic and cultural ‘matching' is a barrier to adoption, and his belief that if this emphasis was ‘relaxed' more children & young people would have the opportunity to experience good quality family life. Because his comments contribute to a debate that raged during my time as a social worker - continuing when I was involved in training and tutoring the next generation of social workers. And rage it did, because the placement of children with parents who don't share the same identity raises such complex, even political issues that it's really difficult not to take a fixed position.
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