Morning mags
Yes I can explain.
Children who have been adopted in the last up to 30 years have been adopted out of the care system. They are children who have not had enough of what they do need and too much of what they don't need.
It was so bad in their birth families that the courts had to intervene and these children are the only children in society who cannot return home.
This early trauma in the first weeks, months and years of life when their brains and bodies are forming causes gaPs in their abilities to manage emotional responses, relationships and attachments, physical development and responses and the ramifications of this are huge.
People are not educated about the long term effects of trauma and so often assume adopted children are the same as other children, in a spirit of 'inclusion' when actually they do need specialist understanding and supports.
The families host to children who have had starts in life like this need specialist therapies, robust respite and training, speech and other specialist medical supports, educationally positive experiences, specialist support.
As a 'looked after' child in the care system they have budget
And workers and people understand these children will have pots of stuff going on.
Once the child has 'adopted' over them all this support stops overnight. For example £500 a term in school per looked after child. Adopted child £0.
The needs of these families are huge and all that support stops once they loose that looked after status.
This petition is to change this.
It will mean families made by adoption get the same recognition of need and support as those host to Looked after children.
Jenni xxl
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