Black boys wait too long to be adopted. Is the system institutionally racist? | Krish Kandiah

BAME children are overrepresented in care, and seemingly have their futures written off based on their skin colourThey were found by the postman; two young children home alone. They spent most of the day in a police station before social services took over. Eventually they found themselves in our home. Like so many children taken into emergency foster care, they looked frozen – like rabbits caught in the glare of car headlights on a dark night. It wasn’t until the next day that one o