15 , 000 kids and counting
15, 000 kids and counting shows the difficult decisions social workers must make in adoption cases. photograph: channel 4
channel 4 series 15, 000 kids and counting shows multiple issues social workers have to deal with in adoption cases. louise tickle reports
last year, 15, 000 children were waiting to be adopted. hence the title of channel 4' s documentary on the adoption process, 15, 000 kids and counting, back for a harrowing new series tonight .
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in an attempt to understand why these figures are so high, channel 4 spent two years filming parents, children and social workers for the three - part 15, 000 kids and counting. it is difficult to imagine that a more important documentary will be made all year .
on average, one child is taken into care every 20 minutes in the uk and over 15, 000 children were put up for adoption in 2013, twice as many as five years previously. however many times you read those statistics, they remain shocking .
the second episode will see annette and jackie struggle with the emotional task of finding adoptive parents for a two - year - old boy and a brother and sister aged three and seven .
intros were exhausting. the mornings just got earlier and earlier as we arrived for breakfast and stuff. i was knackered !
, and many watching admired the professionalism and compassion shown by the social workers featured. here are some of our favourite tweets from the night .
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one desperate father, who faced losing his six - month old daughter, sent 3, 000 texts to social worker karen calling her everything from “f - - - ing scum” to “s - - - head”. the weariness of her reaction suggested that she was used to such abuse and illustrated the remarkable qualities of these people, who work in conditions fraught with aggression .
i missed a bit. what happened with prospective adopters for lauren and liam ?
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they' re brave to let their dvd be put on tv i don' t think i would. dvd' s of yourself are embarassing but yes, it' s very very difficult for a child. an older child faces the reality of losing the parnts they love (fc' s), everything they know, to go to a complete unknown and it' s terrifying. the introduction period is very articifial and nerve wracking, and when you do move in together, you' re still strangers and the child has lost everything they knew. so then your child grieves their losses, and you' re still someone strange. getting to know each other, testing the boundaries. hard time in many ways with little ones, they have no clue what' s going on, but when they move, they know it. my ds was 23 months old, his fc' s were mummy and daddy. i think the first couple of days with me were like a holiday, then he realised mummy and daddy were gone and everything was different and he grieved. it was awful, no other word for it. awful for him. and there' s nothing i can do to ease this grief, only time will help. so he howled and sobbed and i couldn' t comfort him
documentary following the adoption process, meeting social workers, foster carers, birth parents and adoptive parents ...
no more momentous decision in law than removing child from family - professionals and system depicted in # 15000kidsandcounting reflect that .
the documentary follows the search for adoptive parents for a two - year - old boy and a brother ...
i was worried how social workers were going to be portrayed but well balanced and sensitive programme tonight. well done # 15000kids
both adopters and children find the transition from stranger to family member daunting as both sides wonder whether their union will ever seem natural .
so much respect for social workers. you' re damned if you do and you' re damned if you don' t. # 15000kidsandcounting
will be watching on + 1. candy - they found a couple who wanted lauren and liam right at the end of the last episode .
the most emotional episode for me. thought lauren and liam' s sw was wonderful and the foster carers of the children (incl destiny) were just brilliant. i hope more people consider adopting. it' s made me think we won' t just stop at one ...
three shows will follow the lives of vulnerable babies who are taken from their birth parents and moved into foster care, a controversial procedure that has sparked a great deal of debate .
i' ve got it to record so i can watch it myself. last weeks episode had me in tears so at least if it' s recorded i can switch on and off
aged just 18, nicola faces losing her daughter as a result of her relationship with abusive partner matthew, while ray and lorena’s newborn is removed from their arms before she has even left hospital .
, started on thursday night on channel 4. the series follows those involved in the adoption process, from social workers to the birth parents, and sparked a big response on twitter. the programme showed the difficult decisions social work professionals
social worker vicky makes the heart - wrenching decision because of the couple’s past drinking habits. four older children have already been adopted and a psychologist has ruled that they are unfit to be parents until they have undergone long - term psychotherapy .
the documentary did not demonise the parents under assessment, however. some of them were difficult to like – drink, drugs and violence were so often the cause of the problem – but the unobtrusive footage allowed for a more complex picture to emerge .
single mother nicola encapsulated this. a former drug addict, nicola had her son taken away from her just 36 hours after he was born. though she was polite and likeable, time and again she missed her monitored visits with him – her only chance to prove that she could raise him herself. “you can’t judge anybody, ” said social worker anne despite her obvious frustration. “you’ve not worn their shoes, not walked their path. ” it was an inspiring moment that captured the programme’s reasoned tone .
oh god yes, the exhaustion of intros. we were told ours woke up at 8. by the end of the intros we were at the foster carers by 6 and one of them was already awake. luckily we were not too far from their house .
very good so far, but as ever lauren' s reminding me a bit of dd1 - never crying etc. dd1 was so scared that she hid when i came to the house for our first meeting. i' m glad they' re pointing out how hard it is from the childs pov. very easy to focus on the happiness of finding parents, but the transition period and afterwards is such a difficult scary time for a child
# 15000kidsandcounting. social workers work so hard to keep families together. that' s not popular perception but it' s fact .
# 15000kidsandcounting childrens services. the unsung heroes of britian. children first... . always! !! !
# 15000kidsandcounting i love my job as a foster carer. its not easy building relationships with the parents but we try .
loving the positive support for social workers who do a massively important but difficult job. # 15000kidsandcounting
child social worker is a seriously challenging job. worth at least double what they are paid. # 15000kids
channel 4 shining a light on the work of child protection social workers. heartbreaking in many many ways. in awe of them all. # 15000kids
final tweet for us tonight. retweet if you think social workers are amazing! # 15000kids # 15000kidsandcounting
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the first instalment focused on those parents being monitored by social services, whose work has been rightfully criticised following catastrophic failings in the lead up to the tragic death of baby p in 2007. that case was never mentioned here but its impact pervaded the entire programme. no one was prepared to take any risks, a stance which led to inevitable friction .
it did seem odd that on occasions the cameras were barred from filming the most distressing scenes, since the show’s impact relied on the visceral power of its footage. perhaps the producers felt that there were some things that should remain private, such as when nicola learned that she would not be returning home with her son. for the viewer, however, it felt as if the door had been suddenly shut at a crucial moment .
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three - year - old liam is in need of an adoptive parent ...
roughly every 20 minutes in britain, a child is taken into care, with children protection levels at a record high .
the documentary charts the transition from the familiar foster home to the unknown of adoptive ...
excellent. i' m sorry it' s the end of the series .
i didn' t realise how difficult is was for children to cope with being adopted. this is eye opening for me .
my god, the couple who are adopting their boys sibling could be us. it' s a bit close to home for us here. hope it ends well for them
it' s making me relive our bloody awful introductions week. poor little dd .
its been an excellent series. brings tears to my eyes every few mins !
you can just see lauren going through the emotions, bless her little heart .
poor lauren basically wasn' t allowed to have any negative emotions though was she?' rabbit' s feeling sad'' why' s it sad? no need to be sad'. poor little girl.
15,000 kids and counting is a three-part british documentary on channel 4 , first shown in april 2014 . it deals with children put up for adoption in the uk . 
15,000 kids and counting is a three-part british documentary on channel 4, first shown in april 2014. it deals with children put up for adoption in the uk.
15,000 kids and counting is a three-part british documentary on channel 4, first shown in april 2014. it deals with children put up for adoption in the uk.