Ten cheers for Floella Benjamin, Civitas and the cross-party group of peers behind the report Breaking the Care Ceiling (Young people leave care, then are hung out to dry. Why don’t we help them get to university instead?, 11 September). However, I would urge them – and anyone who is considering the issues involved – to expand their work to explicitly include adopted children.
There is no doubt that children who are adopted have better outcomes than those who spend a lot of their young lives in care, but it is a widely believed myth that adoption magically erases or reverses the trauma that children have been through, and often continue to experience as they try to make sense of their lives.
