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Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

NIPSO (NI Public Services Ombudsman) Other Reference NIPSO-trusts-failures-over-adoption-application-caused-couple-distress Sector Health & Social Care Decided 18 February 2022

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We found that the Belfast Trust stopped a couple’s adoption application without clearly telling them why. We asked the Trust to apologise, to let the couple make the application again, and to carry out an audit of previous adoption applications to see if others had been affected in the same way.

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