It seems obvious that early and rapid adoption will be more likely to be successful than late and delayed adoption; and that ethnicity is only one of the factors that leads to a successful adoption, with other factors often more important. And, of course, the length of a kettle lead should not, by itself, delay children being placed with suitable adopters, which happened in a case cited by Gove in a recent speech.
There is always a balance to be found between working with a birth family to help them care for their child and deciding to take the child away for adoption. Whichever way this decision goes, there will be those who argue that justice has not been done for the child, or the parents or both. It’s not simple.
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