The Post Adoption Counselling Ofsted Dance of Misdirection

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A Statutory Instrument 2005 underlining the 2013 Adoption Statutory Guidance fore-worded by Ed Timpson MP., places NO legal prohibitions on adults Adoptees seeking for instance private therapy for trauma inside Adoption. NONE at all . "Counselling" (not  therapy) as core duties, are only mentioned in prescribed forms. Read the Statutes! ..


One mention of therapeutic services for Adoptive children in another 2005 government document is the only time  the Statutes veer from using counselling as a term and that is because some very disturbed children who are adopted, need specialized services . 

Ofsted have created an interpretative problem in their online Guidance about post adoption counselling and that is because counselling in its core duties is indeed statutorily prescribed as a number of tasks and needs to be "inspected" once counsellors and other Adoption support staff set up as "Agencies"

Therapy though  is never mentioned in Statute (not once - please word search it ) nor are any prohibitions placed on adult Adoptees who wish to go private or outside of Ofsted's grasp. . Prohibition  regarding therapy is neither implied nor specified by Statute for adult Adoptees.

PAC-UK and BACP should have legally challenged this but did not . Why ? The easy answer is they stand to gain from a closed shop situation which tries to overrule choices which adult Adoptees can make, and do make, in a free market.

An Adoptee helping other Adoptees tried to get clarity over a year ago from Ofsted and reports in her blog about the matters on How to be Adopted.com

Adoptees in the UK do not like the way they have behaved but these bodies do know the issues, and appear to have left some Adoptees to marinate in them .. The matter needs challenging as "ultra vires" against Ofsted for misadvice, and pain caused,  via the Parliamentary Ombudsman's route . Some of us will do it. Those who should protect our interests are not openly doing it .. 

All this amidst of course the July 7th chaos now ,  of so called "Government" .  Boris Johnson has resigned so has the Children And Families Minister Will Quince MP (over Ofsted partly) 

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