Children’s home providers in England should not be able to profit from caring for society’s most vulnerable children, the new head of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) has said.

Steve Crocker criticised private providers driving around in sports cars and buying racehorses with their profits after “getting rich off taxpayers’ money”.

Profit margins for the 15 largest private children’s home operators average 22.6%, according to the Competition and Markets Authority.

Most councils in England have at least one looked-after child whose private placement costs £10,000 a week or more, with costs running to £60,000 a week in the most extreme cases. Yet in Scotland, which has moved much closer towards a not-for-profit children’s care system, costs are generally lower.

“There should be a national approach to management and profits,” said Crocker, calling for a national cap on fees in England. “We have long had the aspiration to make the sector not-for-profit – Scotland, which has had that aspiration for longer, has got nearer to it.”

NAGPUR: Salamullah Khan, 62, the alleged mastermind in a child trafficking case being investigated by the crime branch, owned an aided orphanage at Kondhali which was shut by the authorities last year after his role in an illegal adoption racket came to fore.

Khan, who has been arrested along with two nurses and a 55-year-old woman, was booked in yet another case registered at Kotwali police station last year. The latest offence was registered at Sitabuldi police station following action by crime branch’s anti-human trafficking (AHT) unit.

Sources stated that Khan, who provided a 12-day-old baby to the elderly woman for Rs three lakh three years ago, is refusing to cooperate with police in the custody. “Khan is claiming that his memory is failing and hence cannot recall from whom he had bought the baby,” said a police source.

It’s learnt, there were three children at Patel Bahuuddeshiya Sanstha’s orphanage run by Khan at Kondhali when he was booked for trafficking last year. The women and child development department had shut the place and shifted the children elsewhere.

In the latest case, police stated that Khan was introduced to the elderly woman by the two nurses who worked at a big hospital in Dhantoli. The woman used to visit the hospital for treatment to conceive at an advanced age.

By Lina Vanegas

I am a transracial and transnational displaced person. I was separated from my country, language, and culture and taken to Michigan, which has no connection to me or my ancestors. I was taken there to create a family for strangers who had the privilege and resources to buy me. I had family in Colombia and I was far from being a true orphan. I was bought in Bogota, Colombia and sold to a white couple living in the Midwest in 1976.

I use the word “displaced” intentionally, because the word “adopted” does not define my lived experience in an accurate way. The word “adopted” is language that was created by the child welfare-industrial complex, also known as the adoption industry. I do not subscribe to any of the constraints or barriers that they attempt to put onto my life with their language choices. Using the word “displaced” defines the intentional separation from my family by the child welfare-industrial complex.

My lived experience has informed who I am and has inspired and motivated the work that I do online and in the world. It is very rare that adopted and displaced people’s lived experiences are seen, heard, validated, centered, and believed, so my mission is to do that online, on my podcast, Rescripting The Narrative, and in the work that I do as a social worker and with the organization Adoptees for Choice.

Currently, the voices on adoption that are centered, listened to, and amplified come from adoptive parents and the child welfare-industrial complex. The message that they proclaim is that we are lucky and chosen and should therefore be grateful for being given a better life. This is a very well-crafted marketing campaign; it is propaganda. This adoption propaganda narrative ignores our reality, which is that our lives began in trauma, grief, and loss when we were separated from our mothers and families. Adoption must be recognized as an adverse childhood experience (ACE), as it puts us at risk for addiction, homelessness, suicidal despair, suicide attempts, death by suicide, eating disorders, self harm, anxiety, depression, identity issues, and more. Adoptees are four times more likely to attempt suicide than non-adopted people.

The use of the words such as "abandonment" in laws and legislation concerning adoptions is causing "unnecessary hurt and difficulties in many adoption proceedings," a High Court judge has said.

The remarks were made by Mr Justice Max Barrett in a judgment where he approved an application made regarding a teenage boy who wants to be adopted by the family who have cared for him since he was a very young child.

The parties cannot be named for legal reasons.

The judge said more sensitive wording should be used in such laws to describe parents whose child is adopted, given that "it is hard enough to see one child's being adopted without also being told "you have failed."

The judge suggested that the laws be amended, and that alternative wording be used instead that is less upsetting.

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12 May at 15:31 ·

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The European Court of Human Rights condemned Luxembourg in 2007 for banning full adoption for single women. However, fifteen years later, the legislation still has not changed.

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Old laws always contain some surprises, articles whose purpose has become obsolete or regressive. In Luxembourg, it was only in 1973 that women were legally allowed to open a bank account without their husbands, only in 1978 that they were able to terminate an unwanted pregnancy without being prosecuted, only in 2016 that unequal pay between women and men was punished by law. And then there are those articles of law that continue to exist in plain sight. Like the adoption law which, in its 1989 version, still reserved the possibility of adopting a child only to married couples.

This was without counting on the perseverance of Jeanne Wagner, a name that has long haunted the corridors of the Ministry of the Family. In 1995, Ms Wagner was 28 years old and began the process of adopting a child. "It may sound strange, but ever since I was a little girl, I wanted to adopt children", says the bubbly woman, now a grandmother. "It was always my dream". The young woman first turned to the Red Cross, "which refused me on the pretext that I was not married", then to the Luxembourg-Peru association. With the support of Luxembourg's honorary consul in Peru, Haydée Fischbach, she obtained the green light from Peru and packed her bags to pick up a three-year-old girl. "A few days before my departure, the Ministry of the Family contacted Mrs Fischbach to forbid her from sending me away and entrusting me with a child. They even told her that she could go to prison!"

"Mum didn't tell me everything so I wouldn't worry, but enough so that I knew she was fighting for me."

From drug dealer to businessman, the author takes us on a journey through his past.

Adopted by French parents in Vietnam in 1995 at the GoVap orphanage in Ho Chi Minh, Leo Nardecchia tells us about his relationship to adoption , the racism he suffered , the questions that gnawed at him and the return to his country of birth.

This book is dark and plunges us into the depths of an inner war.

Leo Nardecchia had a happy childhood, a dark adolescence and he is building today despite a painful past that is difficult to accept. He opens up openly, tells everything, or almost, without any taboos, or almost. He offers us his point of view on adoption, tells his story and the elements that marked his life. His inner struggle and the trauma he suffered left indelible scars and built the man who wrote this autobiography.

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From Monday 23 May, in We are family , Lidewij Nuitten will look for her own roots and those of others, and she will try to get closer to her own family.

Last year, Lidewij appeared in the three-part series Where is Mark? looking for her first childhood love. It became a touching story in which she got help from several adopted people who shared their experiences with her. After the broadcasts, Lidewijs mailbox was flooded with messages from viewers who were touched by the program. That made her realize how important knowing your roots is for your identity. That is why Lidewij wants to learn more about her own ancestors and wonders where she actually came from and how far back in time she can go.

From a DNA sample to a spectacular appeal in Chinese media

In We are family, Lidewij not only goes in search of her own roots; she also helps Noëmi and Anéline in their search for their biological parents. The two Chinese adoptive sisters from Leuven would like to find lost relatives, but have no idea how to get started. What starts with a small sample of DNA quickly escalates into a major search campaign with a spectacular appeal in the Chinese media.

The two sisters

Alejandro knew as a child that he was adopted. But it wasn't until he was in his early 30s that he found out the bitter truth: after he was born, his Chilean mother was told that her child had died. But the baby was placed for adoption in the Netherlands. Alejandro made every effort to learn Spanish well in order to piece together the fragments of his story.

Around 20,000 children from Chile were adopted abroad between the 1970s and the mid-1990s. It is only gradually becoming clear that most of these adoptions did not go smoothly.

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Madurai: Police on Tuesday arrested a 19-year-old woman and her husband for murdering her adoptive father at Chinna Chokkikulam on Monday. The deceased, S Krishnaram, 73, was staying with his wife, Pankajavalli at Kamala Second Street. Around 10 months ago, Krishnaram's adoptive daughter Nivedha got married to Hariharan of Managiri in Sivaganga district, following a love affair. There were disputes between Nivedha and Krishnaram after the marriage and he asked her not to visit his house. The couple had been living in Managiri since then.

Tallakulam police registered a case and the special team formed to investigate the murder zeroed in on the culprits. They said the woman was disgruntled after Krishnaram did not let her into the house and felt she would not get her inheritance as well. Hence she planned the murder with her husband Hariharan and his friend Suresh. Around 10pm on Monday, the trio murdered Krishnaram and made away with 23 sovereigns of gold jewellery from the house. City police commissioner T Senthilkumar lauded the efforts of the police team in arresting the accused within 24 hours.s.com/articleshow/91479076.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

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