In 1982 I went to Cardiff to open the first British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) centre for Wales. The urgent questions of the day were care drift (much informed by Jane Rowe's 1973 study, Children Who Wait), the ethical and practical challenges of transracial adoption, how long it took to produce adopters and that most mysterious of arts, matching. BAAF provided a disruptions review service in relation to all placements made through the adoption exchange that had broken down. Placement breakdown is a painful business. It will be interesting to see the effect of putting these latest spokes in the wheel upon that most hurtful consequence of not getting it right. Back then, of course, we thought we were making progress in relation to all these complex challenges.
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