{"id":90839,"date":"2026-06-17T13:06:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90839"},"modified":"2026-06-17T13:06:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:06:51","slug":"government-to-apologise-to-victims-of-forced-adoptions-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/17\/government-to-apologise-to-victims-of-forced-adoptions-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Government to apologise to victims of forced adoptions in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/999\/cpsprodpb\/f8fc\/live\/bb6434f0-6a3a-11f1-8e1d-bbbb1017d210.jpg\" alt=\"Bridget Phillipson has a dark brown bob hair do as she speaks to members of the press with a neutral expression \" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The government is to apologise to victims of historical forced adoptions in England, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has said, following years of campaigning from mothers and adoptees. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx24857pprko\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The government is to apologise to victims of historical forced adoptions in England, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has said, following years of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Bridget-Phillipson.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90840,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90839\/revisions\/90840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}