Education Committee
10 March 2026
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Education Committee House of Commons
00:25 - 02:07
Speaker 1
Order. Order. Welcome to this oral evidence session of the education select committee. Can I welcome our witnesses and members to the session this morning? This is the first the second of two evidence sessions in public that the Select Committee is taking on the subject of historical forced adoptions.
This morning, we will be hearing from people with lived experience of historical forced adoptions, both as mothers and as adults who were adopted as babies. I want to acknowledge at the start of this session, how traumatic and emotional this subject matter is. I want to say a particular thanks to our witnesses. I know that many of you have been campaigning for an apology for the experiences that you were, subjected to over many years. I want to acknowledge that it is a difficult and exhausting thing to give your evidence again and again and to talk about your experiences and we are enormously grateful to you for doing that today.
I want to also acknowledge that the subject matter we'll be discussing today I know will be triggering for people with personal experience of the systems and policies that we're talking about. Please look after yourselves as we go through the evidence session today. And I said to the witnesses privately before we began the broadcast, if they need to take a break, we will do that during this session. I wanted everything possible to make sure that the witnesses are well supported to be able to give their important evidence to us today. Thank you again for being here.
Can I ask each of the witnesses, first of all, just to introduce yourselves to us? I might start with Diana, if that's okay.
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