How is policy made?

www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/cl...adoption-reform

Adoption "reform" is high on the agenda now. This is an interesting article about how policy is made: in this case it is developed by the Murdoch press in broad outline: and then the detail is supplied by someone who knows nothing about it. It is interesting to find that a policy which affects many lives for their whole lives was devised in "two months" from a standing start.

Once again the cry is "follow what America does". Well we had a thread about how great that system can be, some time ago.

https://thosebigwords.forumcommunity.net/?t=47444906

What this seems to me to be is baby farming for the middle class childless. As the article notes. a high proportion of american adoptions are from overseas: a trend which is increasing here as well. The reason for that is that the adopters want babies. There are very few babies for adoption and so we see them advocate combining pressure not to abort with draconian action at a very early stage to release children for adoption at a very young age. No mention of the fact that this is seldom possible because the courts will not approve it. But that will be next: pressure on social workers is easy in the current climate. Pressure on the courts takes a little longer. But note how "evidence based practice" is nowhere in this instance: it is nowhere most of the time except when it can be used as a stick to beat public servants with

Contemptible