Millions of religious people would love to adopt but fear discrimination by the authorities on account of their faith. Now the Government is trying to put them at ease so homes for thousands of children can be found.
England alone now has more than 4,600 children waiting for permanent homes
There is a crisis in the UK adoption system: England alone now has more than
4,600 children waiting for permanent homes. In trying to find solutions, the
Department of Education recently funded some extensive
research to identify the types of people most likely to adopt so
they can target likely candidates more strategically.
More than four million people were polled and the results were “rather
unexpected”, according to Catharine Dowdney, spokesman for the Government
funded organisation First4Adoption. “The survey found that more than half
(55 per cent) of everyone who said they are ‘certain’ or ‘very likely’ to
adopt a child described themselves as ‘actively practising a religion’ –
that’s a huge proportion of people considering we live in a secular
society,” she explains.
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