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Adoption system 'has to change'

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With 65,000 children in care, adoption is high on the political agenda. But as a Panorama special is reporting, children must wait an average two years and seven months for a permanent family.

Roger Graef is executive producer of The Truth About Adoption and describes how they have been following six children in Coventry waiting to be adopted.


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