Parliament has decamped for midwinter, but the business of government goes on. Today’s
announcement, by the children’s minister Tim Loughton, is contained within a Times article here. ‘An expert
panel,’ it reveals, will be tasked with designing a new system for assessing prospective adoptive parents by March next year. That new system, making it easier for suitable folk to adopt,
should then be in place by the end of 2012.
In many respects, adoption is perfect Cameroonian territory; being, as it is, at the intersection of social responsibility, family, deregulation, etc, etc. But politics isn’t what should concern us
here. A lot of unmitigated good can be done in fixing a system that has been strangled and subverted by years of bureaucratic interference. As David Cameron put it in his most recent party conference speech:
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