What Details of adoptive parents accidentally disclosed to birth parents.
Why An employee mistakenly included the address of a child’s adoptive parents in a ‘letterbox’ letter to the birth mother. The birth mother passed the address on to her own parents, who wrote to the adoptive parents seeking contact with the child. The grandparents then made an application to the Court for direct contact with their grandchild, which was refused following two hearings, and the grandparents had to undertake only to use the Council’s ‘letterbox’ procedure for contact.
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