Adoption and child protection: are councils misusing a key part of the law?

Adoption and child protection: are councils misusing a key part of the law? | Social Care Network | The Guardian:

Contested adoptions in which children are permanently removed from parents desperate to keep them may be the most controversial aspect of state intervention in family life. But social services’ apparent misuse of section 20 of the 1989 Children Act, under which a council looks after a child in foster or residential care after getting parental consent, may now be coming a close second.