Writing exclusively for CYP Now, Narey said that far from ignoring the voices of frontline practitioners, his report reflected what "brave social workers" had told him. He also said his report accepted that some parents can turn their lives around, but said practitioners can be faced with a system that is "gripped by an unreasonable optimism about the capacity of neglectful parents to reform".
Read Narey’s full response below:
Adoption: why I wanted to meet the challenge
As some of the press reported last week, and with just a hint of mischief, I had retired in January in order to spend more time with my family. This was not, for once, a euphemism for repairing a marriage after an affair. The truth was much less exciting and was simply that, after five-and-a-half years of weekly commuting from North Yorkshire to London, I wanted to spend much more time at home.
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