{"id":2454,"date":"2011-07-04T21:43:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T21:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2011-07-04T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T21:45:00","slug":"government-to-appoint-adoption-tsar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/government-to-appoint-adoption-tsar\/","title":{"rendered":"Government to appoint adoption tsar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/local-national\/uk\/government-to-appoint-adoption-tsar-16019147.html#ixzz1R9WCm9al\">http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk<br \/>\n<\/a>Monday, 4 July 2011\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Government is to appoint its first adoption tsar to try to cut the number of children stuck in the care system waiting to find a family.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Narey, the former head of the Prison Service and chief executive of children&#8217;s charity Barnardo&#8217;s, is set to be the first Ministerial Adviser on Adoption, reported The Times.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He is expected to be asked to make recommendations on how the process of adoption can be improved and to ensure that social workers take a positive approach to adoption as an option for children in care.<\/p>\n<p>Only 3,200 children were adopted from care last year, and the average time between a child being removed from its natural parents and being adopted has increased to two years and seven months, said The Times, which has been campaigning for a change in attitudes to adoption.<\/p>\n<p>The new adviser will report to Education Secretary Michael Gove, who was himself adopted as a young child.<\/p>\n<p>The Department for Education said that no appointment had yet been<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk Monday, 4 July 2011\u00a0 The Government is to appoint its first adoption tsar to try to cut the number of children stuck in the care system waiting to find a family. Martin Narey, the former head of the Prison Service and chief executive of children&#8217;s charity Barnardo&#8217;s, is set to be the first&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/government-to-appoint-adoption-tsar\/\" title=\"Read Government to appoint adoption tsar\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2456,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions\/2456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}