Adoption

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Nearly 200 babies from church-run homes buried in unmarked graves

Records obtained by ITV News reveal 197 babies are buried in mass burial grounds across England, ITV News Social Affairs Correspondent Sarah Corker reports.

10 Dec

Emu 'abandoned' as baby, raised by chicken foster-mother named Nugget

Keepers at the attraction in Farnham, Surrey shared the four-year-old's unique story as part of National Adoption Week.

17 Oct

'They just took the baby away': Family speaks out in church-run homes scandal

A family has come forward following an ITV News investigation into cruelty and abuse at ex church run mother and baby homes

16 Oct

A mass grave and forced adoption: Inside historic church homes

More Welsh-speaking adopters could help reach 1 million speakers target

The women haunted by forced adoptions looking for answers

Lack of support leaves record number of adoptive families in crisis

Calls to save adoption service: 'Losing Life Story Project would be a travesty'

‘It’s my past, present and future’: Adopted mum on why she adopted two children

The sketch that reunited an artist with her long-lost son after 44 years

Son stolen at birth hugs mum for first time in 42 years

Paralympian Ellie Simmonds' emotional journey to find her birth parents

'My baby was taken away from me when he was eight days old'

Mother was forced to give seven-day-old baby up for adoption

Sturgeon's tearful apology for Scotland's forced adoption policy