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Adoption

September 2026

  • A young woman makes a heart gesture with her hands on a phone's screen during a video call with an older woman

    Ukraine in depth
    ‘My future is in the EU’: the Ukrainian children who don’t want to go home

    Thousands of children in state care were evacuated when Russia invaded. Kyiv wants them back – but many resist

July 2026

  • Close up of young father holding his newborn baby son in his arms

    Why have fathers been left out of the forced adoption narrative?

  • Eight women stand in front of No 10 Downing Street

    For survivors of forced adoption, the trauma can last a lifetime

  • David Batty

    double quotation markBritain’s apology for the scandal of forced adoption won’t – on its own – heal the wounds of survivors like me

    David Batty
  • Women hold protest signs reading 'Justice for birth parents and their children' at a demonstration.

    ‘The shame is ours’: Keir Starmer issues formal state apology over forced adoptions

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Starmer issues government apology over forced adoption scandal – as it happened

  • 'I am truly sorry': Starmer apologises for state’s role in forced adoptions – video

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  • Adoption gives many children a good chance

June 2026

  • The silhouette of a girl with her baby in a corridor in a London building.

    Forced adoptions in Britain were to everybody’s shame

  • David Batty looks at a sheet of photographic negatives as he stands next to a window with venetian blinds

    Today in Focus
    The complicated truth about adoption reunions – podcast

    Podcast35:19
  • Bridget Phillipson

    Forced adoption survivors to get full apology from UK government, says Phillipson

  • Andy Burnham speaking

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Burnham says he wants to ensure Makerfield byelection ‘changes British politics’, in eve-of-poll speech – as it happened

  • UK adult adoptees: share your experience of reunion with a birth parent

  • Attachment review – adoption is a marathon in this sprint of a show

  • Rights and freedom
    My mother was forced to give me up for adoption. But when we finally met decades later, it was far from a fairytale ending

May 2026

  • Danny Stewart, 60, and Pete Mercurio, 57, pose for a portrait inside the subway station on 15th Street and 8th Avenue where they found a baby in August of 2000, who they adopted as their son, in New York, NY on Wednesday, March 25, 2026.

    Experience
    Experience: we found a baby on the subway – now he’s our 26-year-old son

    I was rushing towards the turnstile when I noticed a bundle of clothes in a corner. I walked over, peeled back a dark sweatshirt, and saw him

April 2026

  • Sue Wright

    Other lives
    Sue Wright obituary

  • Phil Frampton smiling while sitting on a chair draped in a quilt

    Church of England expected to formally apologise for its role in forced adoptions

March 2026

  • Silhouette of a woman in front of a window

    UK government must urgently apologise for forced adoption, MPs say

    Ministers urged to work with survivor groups on formal apology as many victims are nearing end of their lives

February 2026

  • Family on a beach

    Fostering target brings hope for thousands of children

    Letter: I have seen first-hand how rewarding fostering can be, and I highly recommend it, writes Dr Krish Kandiah
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