The call comes as part of a new report which warns that support for adopted children and adults looking to connect with birth relatives is “not fit for purpose”.
The charity’s annual Adoption Barometer finds just 17 per cent of adopted adults surveyed have received professional support to help with birth family contact.
Around a third were offered counselling as part of the process of tracing birth relatives in adulthood, however, half of those people said it felt like a “tick-box exercise''.
Respondents described the process of tracing relatives as “frustrating”, “costly” and “full of red tape”.
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