The government are now saying that the "adoption target" ceased in 2006. For year 1/4/5-31/3/6 there was BV163 which was adoptions from care. This remained in year 6-7 and 7-8, but was redefined to include special guardianships. It is misleading to say that the target ended when it was redefined.
The link is in Russian about the imprisonment of Norman Scarth who is actually 85. He has a complex history including a court hearing which found that he used a chainsaw to fight off bailiffs when he was 75. [a court judgment which is disputed see comments] However, that does not justify imprisoning him for 6 months for recording a court hearing (see the link and ask google to translate it if your Russian is not up to it).
It has got into the Argyll News
Because he has been held such that people cannot get to him to sign paperwork an application for a writ of Habeas Corpus was made today. This has been adjourned until next week.
The English judicial system is really not good at responding to major abuses of human rights by the judicial system.
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Both me and the missus have mental illness (nothing serious (in a dangerous way) PTSD and depression) and frankly we live in fear of the social services - indeed in part this fear led to the stillbirth of our daughter last year.
Thankfully we have been blessed a second time, and have managed to keep out of the reaches of the social services, hopefully it will stay this way.
Though it doesn't say much for the wellfare state that things should be this way.
Now all we have to worry about is a miracle cure by David Freud, and the subsquent endless meals of beans on toast.
btw what happened to the disablity discrimantion act - I thought it was meant to stop this sort of thing - oh yeah I forgot we are nuts and don't count. Still I guess it is nice that it exists to provide yet more tick boxes for government to show just how enlightened the country is in matters of social policy.