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© British Association of Social Workers

Professionalism and the Adoption of Black Children

PAUL STUBBS

Paul Stubbs has degrees from the Universities of Hull and Leicester and has a CQSW from the University of Warwick. He is currently Research Fellow on an ESRC-funded project, ‘Crime, Community and the Inter-Agency Dimension’ based at Middlesex Polytechnic, Faculty of Social Science, and Lancaster University, Department of Social Administration. He has recently convened and taught an ‘Issues in Multi-Racial and Anti-Racist Social Work’ course for social work students at Lancaster and is completing a PhD dissertation for the University of Bath.

Correspondence to Paul Stubbs, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Lancaster, Department of Social Administration, Fylde College, Lancaster LA1 4YF.

Summary

This article poses certain issues about the effects of professionalism in policy and practice in the adoption of black children. By locating the practice in its historical context, recent debates about ‘bans’ on the adoption of black children by white families can be discussed more clearly.

This is followed by case studies based on original research in two London boroughs, examining professionalism in child care and adoption practice, before certain conclusions and alternatives are addressed.


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