Instead of spending £88m to recruit more foster carers @JoshMacAlister should put those millions into supporting mums so kids don’t get taken into care in the first place.  #CareIncomeNow

See you WED 4 November at 12.30pm outside Central Family Court. The courts are now OPEN! We are stronger. STOP taking our children! STOP killing our children! #PovertyIsNotNeglect #CareIncomeNow

Our sisters in Philadelphia & LA are also protesting today demanding an end to sexist, racist, class & disability biased child removal, including by ICE v immigrant families. Our kids don’t belong to the state, they belong with their families @womenstrike_us

File on 4 is the first mainstream media recognition of today’s forced adoptions.The truth is now out!We’ll continue to campaign until the law is changed and adoptions without the consent of birth mothers and families are BANNED.Our children don’t belong to the State! @BBCfileon4

Removing children from loving mum causes REAL LONGLASTING HARM to kids & mums. Social services & family courts have no understanding and no empathy, they think they know best just because they have the power. Stop all forced adoptions now!

Victim of domestic violence, three children, one adopted, two now home: “On the day of the hearing the children were taken straight after court. I had about two minutes to say goodbye. There were 7 social workers & they dragged my youngest out of my arms & took all three.”

Autistic mum of two adopted children, toddler lives with her: “When my last child was born it was very painful because I couldn't let my emotions show. Even though I had emotional attachment to my other kids, I could not show it. I had to keep it in. It's been exhausting.”

Adult adoptee: “My adopted family adopted two babies. I can only imagine that not many checks were done as they were extraordinarily abusive. My adoptive mother covered up and facilitated our adoptive father’s abuse, physical, sexual and emotional.”

Disabled mum: “the judge said one of the reasons the adoption was finalised was that social services forced their hand because they'd already placed her with the adoptive family even before a freeing order had been granted, never mind an adoption order.”

Many children are taken from mums & forcibly adopted: poverty conflated with “neglect”, domestic violence victims accused of "failing to protect" their children, disabled mothers needing help deemed unable to “cope” . . . #stopforcedadoptionsnow

Many assumed this barbaric practice stopped 40 years ago. It didn’t. See @BBCfileon4 confirming that 90% of UK adoptions are without parental consent. This most cruel abuse of power by the State must stop. #stopforcedadoptions youtube.com/watch?v=MeMZS9jE…

We’re outside central #familycourt to STOP cruel arbitrary separations of children from their mums, END forced adoptions & profiteering by private companies. #PovertyisNotNeglect Take away our poverty NOT our children! @CMcKinnellMP @JoshMacAlister

Join us outside London Central Family Court WC1V 6NP Wed 7 October 2026, 12.30-1.30pm. Forced Adoptions are not just historic – they are happening now. The BBC filmed us last month and just reported. Our message is out: ‘our children don’t belong to the State'. @BBCfileon4

See you tomorrow WED 7 October at 12.30pm outside Central Family Court. We stand against forced adoption. We are stronger. STOP taking our children! STOP killing our children! #PovertyIsNotNeglect #CareIncomeNow

FILEon4 INVESTIGATES: Do modern day forced adoptions exist and if so,how do they happen? TUES 6 OCT. Support Not Separation & Disabled Mothers’ Rights Campaign put the BBC in touch with birth mums whose children were forcibly adopted & adoptees.#stopforcedadoptions @BBCfileon4

See you WED 7 October at 12.30pm outside Central Family Court. The courts are now OPEN! We are stronger. STOP taking our children! STOP killing our children! #PovertyIsNotNeglect #CareIncomeNow

Look out for BBC File on Four investigations broadcast on Tuesday 6 October – mums of children adopted and an adoptee speak out, together with SNS and Disabled Mothers Rights Campaign

We are determined to end current forced adoptions. Adoptions without the consent of the mothers are over 90% of adoptions in the UK, among the highest in the world. Our children don’t belong to the State; they belong with their mums.

We’re outside central #familycourt to STOP cruel arbitrary separations of children from their mums, END forced adoptions & profiteering by private companies. #PovertyisNotNeglect Take away our poverty NOT our children! @CMcKinnellMP @JoshMacAlister