the whole problem is the fact that the longer you 'keep looking', the lower the chances of being adopted at all. In that context, it does make sense to speed up the system since the chances of a good match are also going down over time. Oh no, social workers aren't unhappy, are they? How awful. I wonder how parents whose children have been stolen from them are feeling this morning? Yes that's right. Social workers just pull a name out of the 'who are we going to adopt today' hat each morning. People who use the phrase 'stolen' are generally those who've had a child removed but are too cowardly to own up to the fact that it was their behaviour that caused the child to be removed in the first place." A browse of Booker's pieces in the Sunday Telegraph (yes, I know, garlic and crucifixes to be donned first) on the doings of Family Courts at the bidding of social workers in this country might be in order. It would be interesting to know which party did put the "white kids to white families, non-whites kids to non white families" approach out there. I don't really believe Gove that it was a left wing issue - a few seconds thought and we realise that if you're Chinese and up for adoption it's going to be extremely difficult to put you with a Chinese family - all minorities make up only 20% of the population and many "communities"