Select Committee · Human Rights (Joint Committee)

The right to family life: adoption of children of unmarried women 1949-1976

Status: Closed Opened: 23 Sep 2021 Closed: 5 Dec 2023 1 report

The Joint Committee on Human Rights has launched a new inquiry to understand the experiences of unmarried women whose children were adopted between 1949 and 1976 in England and Wales. The inquiry will consider whether adoption processes respected the human rights, as we understand them now, of the mothers and children who experienced them, as …

Reports

1 report
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Third Report - The Violation of Family Life: Adoption of Ch… HC 270 15 Jul 2022 0 Responded

Oral evidence sessions

3 sessions
Date Witnesses
25 May 2022 Rt Hon Nadhim Zahawi · Department of Education, Sarah Jennings · Department of Education View ↗
16 Mar 2022 Ann Keen, Judy Baker, Liz Harvie View ↗
15 Dec 2021 Dr Jatinder Sandhu, Dr Michael Lambert · University of Lancaster, Professor Gordon Harold · University of Cambridge View ↗

Correspondence

1 letter
DateDirectionTitle
26 Jan 2023 Correspondence with the Secretary of State for Education relating to the JCHR r…