We have been ‘Nicked for a Crime’ - this is a description that has not yet been truly defined.

Our children have been taken from us, for reasons such as risk of emotional harm, or because we did not escape a violent partner soon enough and, in some cases, it is because we were abused.

We need help and support, not for our families to be torn apart, but for Government departments such as Social Services to support us in our search for our children.  If Social Services and other departments genuinely supported us and got us the help we needed, from counseling to setting up self help groups within our local community, they may find that public opinion would change providing we do not have a repeat of social workers removing children, based on their opinion.  If a child is to be removed it should be decided by jury, not one judge and, it should not be done in total secrecy.  Another need is for the gagging of people involved in cases lifting, so that the landmark cases can be reported upon by the newspapers, but also so that we can talk freely to get advice and support.

More should be done to help reunite adoptees and birth family alike, currently this is not the case. Adoptive parents need input too; they need to understand that the birth family is not a threat, providing the child has not been forcibly adopted.

Our aim is to offer a tracing service in the near future for adoptee’s looking for their natural family.  Hopefully we may be able to assist those seeking birth family too and possibly help in pointing them in the right direction.  We hope to provide a support group to enable people from the adoption triad to share how they feel with someone outside the family triad and situation.

Firstly, we are here to offer support and advice to people trying to fight the system to enable them to keep their children where an injustice has taken place.