Gove knows the importance of adoption
James Forsyth 11:04am
The coalition’s work on adoption is one of its more impressive bits of public service reform. It starts from the right premise, that adoption is vastly preferable to children being in care. It then uses changes to the regulations, transparency and a plethora of providers to try and increase the number of adoptions.
It is, for example, absurd that the current system has left to children being left in care because of worries that their ethnicity does not match that of their potential adopters. Or, that people are being denied the chance to adopt because they smoke.
These reforms are being pushed hard by both Number 10 and the Department for Education. Michael Gove, the education secretary, was himself adopted. In an interview with ITV last night, he spoke about how being adopted had changed his life.
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telemachus'
February 24th, 2012 11:24am Report this commentGove, usually an idiot, came across on ITV as a caring man who was sensitive to others.
I was particularly impressed at his reasons for not seeking out his birth mother.
Now can we have some caring for the downtrodden teachers
His new mantra-To care is to motivate
Oliver Tonkin
February 24th, 2012 12:12pm Report this commentBy any measure Michael Gove is not an idiot - he is the most impressive and insightful members of Government and politician in general. Even better, he is one of very few who can articulate and implement policy in an effective manner.
an ex-tory voter
February 24th, 2012 12:54pm Report this commentMichael Gove is most certainly not an idiot. He is an articulate, capable and resourceful minister, whose reforms are beginning to transform and revitalise education in this country, despite the army of "luddites and vested interests" ranged against him. More importantly, he is almost the only "Conservative" minister in government.
Oh Cheers
April 2nd, 2012 11:37pm Report this commentMichael Gove is a risky idiot to overlook children's needs in adoption. So he got lucky with his privileged upbringing, and made it work for him, congratulations. And now he's making it work for him politically, by selling the popular and romantic ideal of saving a child. Not all kids are adopted into ideal circumstances.
Oh Cheers
April 2nd, 2012 11:39pm Report this commentGove is an idiot. Disappointed with people's naivety about this. How can they comment if they weren't adopted? We NEED good matches of parents to children if the child is to prosper. Too often it's the case that the selfish keen-to-adopt parent is considered in favour of the forgotten (yes, forgotten or ignored) needs of the adoptee child.
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