A crisis in post-adoption support in England means parents feel punished rather than helped when things go wrong
- More adoptions likely to fail in England amid funding cuts, warn charities
Victoria Bristow was devastated when she was forced to place her adopted son back into the care of social services in England after years of struggling with little support.
“It broke my heart. But my son’s behaviour was unmanageable. He was violent. He would attack his sister, he would attack me, he attacked his grandmother. He was running away, and I was having to report him as missing – at this point he was only 10 years old,” she said.
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