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The Guardian // World // Europe

‘It broke my heart’: the adopters forced to return their child to care after struggling alone

Wednesday 21st May 2025, 3:22PM

A crisis in post-adoption support in England means parents feel punished rather than helped when things go wrongMore adoptions likely to fail in England amid funding cuts, warn charitiesVictoria 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. Continue reading...

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