She said the government has started taking steps forward through the Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children and the creation of the first national adoption register as well as support for kinship carers.

BBC: Looked-after children debate

He would never say what he was thinking, but it was clear that he resented the time she spent at the hospital, and Eva had started looking forward to the days or weeks when her husband was away, inspecting a rig in the North Sea or designing some mysterious installation in Egypt or Nigeria.

NEWYORKER: The Bell Ringer