In a new blog, our CEO Sue Armstrong Brown reflects on yesterday's BBC Radio 4 Today programme & the subject of unmanaged contact. She calls for an overhaul of the way contact is decided & supported, from before the adoption order & right into adulthood. "In failing to recognise the strong likelihood of unmanaged contact and failing to invest early in life journey work and identity development, the adoption system is setting young people up for risk. I hope that tragedies like the family torn apart by unsolicited contact will spotlight the need for better preparation. Adopted children deserve to be able to find out who they are without feeling forced to go behind their parents’ back or running the risk of exposure to crime, drugs and violence. Adoptive families, birth families and adopted children all deserve a relationship-based contact system that comes much closer to meeting their needs." Read more:
https://www.adoptionuk.org/blog/adoption-contact-for-the-digital-world