Spotlight on Westminster after Labour-led Welsh administration says sorry to mothers coerced into giving away children

UK ministers are under renewed pressure to formally apologise for the practice of forced adoption after the Labour-led Welsh administration said sorry to mothers coerced into giving away children.

Julie Morgan, the deputy minister for social services in Wales, said on Tuesday in the Senedd that the whole of the Welsh government was “truly sorry” for the cruelty of forced adoptions.

The move, which follows the Scottish government’s apology last month, was welcomed by campaigners who called for the UK government to follow suit for England.

Morgan said: “Regardless of the societal pressures or social norms of the day, such cruelty should never be an acceptable part of our society in Wales. I would like to convey my deepest sympathy and regret to all affected, that due to society failing you, you had to endure such appalling historical practices in Wales. For this, the whole of the Welsh government is truly sorry.”

An East Coast iwi is partnering with the government to give iwi and local groups more say in decisions about uplifting children.

The move is part of a wider plan to make Oranga Tamariki more community-led, and aims to get iwi and local organisations more involved in interventions from the outset.

Te Ara M?tua is a partnership between the iwi Ng?ti Kahungunu, Oranga Tamariki and local health advocacy group Te Tumu Whakahaere o Te Wero.

It aims to get iwi and local organisations more involved in decision making at the start when wh?nau require intervention.

Minister for Children Kelvin Davis said it was expected there could be a continued reduction in the number of children in care by using community relationships to intervene earlier and more effectively.

The stars of HGTV's Fixer to Fabulous open up to PEOPLE about the harrowing three-year process of bringing their daughter Sylvie home

Dave and Jenny Marrs' adoption story was "100 percent a miracle," according to the Fixer to Fabulous stars.

What should have been a six-month process to bring their daughter Sylvie, now 11, home from the Democratic Republic of Congo turned into a harrowing three-year ordeal for the new co-hosts of Home Town Takeover (premiering April 23).

The couple always knew they wanted to adopt, so when they were struggling to start a family of their own, it was an easy decision to start the paperwork. That journey hit its first bump when Jenny unexpectedly got pregnant with twins. It was a high-risk pregnancy, she tells PEOPLE in this week's issue, and when she went into labor prematurely, she had to be airlifted to a hospital in Little Rock from their home in Bentonville, Ark.

"We were given every worst-case scenario for when the boys were born," she says. Thankfully, Nathan and Ben, now 12, arrived "perfectly healthy and awesome."

After eight Croatian citizens ended up in a Zambian prison on suspicion of child trafficking from DR Congo, a woman from central Croatia managed to adopt a child from that country, from the same orphanage, and bring him to Croatia, 24 Hour has learned .

"The woman adopted a child from the same orphanage as the arrested Croats, and the adoption process was identical. The girl she adopted received all Croatian documents," people familiar with the case told 24sata .

Our adoption story begins around May 1997, we wondered if our family could have another girl. A baby didn't seem to fit into the age chain, because our son Björn was already 10 years old at that time. That's how we came up with the idea of ??adoption, and adoption didn't pose the risk that it could end up being a boy. Because my wish (Peter) was another daughter, but it should be 2. More on that later. After a while we both made up our minds.

So our way led us to our youth welfare office. The social worker was very nice and helpful. So we submitted the adoption application and our adoption suitability report should also be prepared quite quickly.

But there was also disillusionment: Adopting even an older child in Germany is almost hopeless.

Some time later she visited us to get to know us and our home better.

It was here that the question of "foreign adoption" came up for the first time. She reported from the ISD in Frankfurt.

There is no report available regarding death of children after their adoption from these agencies: Centre

A total of 79 children have died between April to December, 2022, in Specialised Adoption Agencies (SAAs) majorly due to unsafe abandonments which exposed them to harm like being bitten by animals or asphyxia. Very low birth weight and premature birth were some of the other reasons.

However, there is no report available regarding death of children after their adoption from these agencies, the Ministry of Women and Child Development informed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.

The Ministry said that for improving quality child care in Child Care Institutions (CCIs), particularly in SAAs, Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) has been advising the agencies through circulars and through various training and development activities.

Adoption Regulations, 2022, also emphasises on quality child care by the adoption agencies and also mandates Chief Medical Officers for necessary interventions.

Couple loses bid to have adopted son declared a citizen by operation of law.

PETALING JAYA: A court has held that an adoption order issued by a lower court concerning a man almost 10 years ago did not confer on him a right to citizenship.

Lau Jhun Guan, 22, and his adoptive parents had applied to the Johor Bahru High Court for a declaration that he was a Malaysian citizen by operation of law.

He also sought a court order compelling the government to issue a birth certificate and an identity card reflecting his status as a citizen.

Dismissing the application, judicial commissioner Shamsulbahri Ibrahim said that while an adoption order conferred the adoptive parents certain rights and obligations over a child, its “operability and interpretation should not be stretched to supplement the provisions of the (Federal Constitution) in matters relating to citizenship”.

Central Adoption Resource Authority Recruitment 2023: Monthly Salary 218200, Check Post, Application Process

Central Adoption Resource Authority Recruitment 2023: The Secretariat of the Appointment Committee of the Cabinet, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has invited Applications from the Candidates Eligible for Chief Executive Officer (CEO) (Joint Secretary Level) in the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) through this MoWCD Recruitment 2023 Official Notification.

According to the Ministry of Women and Child Development Recruitment 2023 Official Advertisement, there is 01 Vacancy for Chief Executive Officer Post under Pay Level 14 (Rs.144200-218200) on Deputation Basis for 05 Years. According to the Ministry of Women and Child Development Recruitment 2023 Official Advertisement, Willing Officers with Eligibility may apply in the Prescribed Application Proforma with the Enclosure through Proper Channel. Duly completed Applications with Enclosures should be transmitted through Email Before or On 10.04.2023. The Cadre Controlling Authority should route the Nominations of Eligible Office through DoPT Online Interface.

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A 46-year-old man who went missing at a bus terminal in Suwon, Gyeonggi, more than 40 years ago before being adopted by a German couple reunited with his biological family on Thursday.

Local authorities said it was the third time they linked a missing Korean child who was adopted overseas during the 1970s and ‘80s with their birth family through a program jointly run by the Korean National Police Agency, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Center for the Rights of the Child.

The latest adoptee who benefitted from the program was identified only as Jeong, the Korean surname he was given by his birth parents.

Police said he refused to reveal his German name to the press.

He was four years old when his parents lost him at the Suwon Bus Terminal in January 1981.

Binnenlands geadopteerden vragen meer aandacht: ’Maak haast met het onderzoek naar de praktijk van afstand en adoptie. Straks kan het niet meer’

Domestic adoptees demand more attention: 'Hurry up with research into the practice of distance and adoption. Soon it won't be possible anymore

Domestic distance children are beating the drum, in the wake of the distance mothers who have been doing so for some time. The distance children hope that research into the practice of distance and adoption will be speeded up in the years 1956 to 1984, the years in which more than 15,000 children were adopted.

Commissioned by the Ministry of Justice, a study is being conducted into the practice of renunciation and adoption in the Netherlands between 1956 (the adoption of the Adoption Act) and 1984 (the implementation of the Abortion Act). In those years, 15,290 babies were given up immediately after birth and later adopted, according to the report 'Strapped in the hinges of time' from 2017 by the Scientific Research and Documentation Center.

Developmental delays