UK government under pressure to formally apologise for forced adoption

Spotlight on Westminster after Labour-led Welsh administration says sorry to mothers coerced into giving away children

Ministers are coming under renewed pressure to formally apologise for the practice of forced adoption after the Labour-led Welsh administration said sorry to mothers coerced into giving away children.

Julie Morgan, the deputy minister for social services in Wales, said on Tuesday in the Senedd that the whole of the Welsh government was “truly sorry” for the “cruelty” of forced adoptions.