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'1 in 3 adoptive parents not welcomed into the system'

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The government wants to make it easier for people to adopt children in England by speeding up the way that checks are carried out on potential adoptive people.

Jonathan Pearce, Chief Executive of Adoption UK explains how they would like to see it changed.


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