The government is to overhaul the way people in England are checked to see if they are suitable to adopt children. A new panel has been set up which will work with its adoption adviser, Martin Narey, to draw up plans. Nowadays ministers say that the process is too slow and that many are put off or others are excluded unnecessarily. The government says that detailed assessment is the best way to do so. They have pledged to speed up the adoption process and says it wants more children adopted. The main aim of the panel is to suggest a way which lessens the bureaucracy social workers are facing. The panel will also set out timescales for checking people's suitability and training them, and suggest new ways of monitoring the success of the adoption system. The idea is to try to identify the children who need adoption as quickly as possible, and then to make sure that there is a supply of adopters ready and waiting to adopt those children. Others are saying that the government shouldn’t emphasise speed over the quality of assessment, because adoption is for life. However Mr Narey told BBC that the system could be both shortened and made more rigorous without relaxing the system.
My reaction
Bureaucracy is a big problem in most of the government policies and also within the adoption system. It is in the best interest of the children and the potential adoptive parents that the current system is under revision. Years go by as a result of too much paperwork and in the meantime future parents are waiting and waiting. Even during a long process of assessment there is a chance that potential parents will not be accepted as adoptive parents. Therefore, speeding up the process is a very important improvement, because future parents are screened within a shorter time-span. On the other hand, I think it is important that the system will not be too flexible, a detailed and strict assessment is still necessary in order to decide whether parents qualify for raising a child.
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