Adoption rates low for young black children

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Only 3% of adoptions between March 2012 and 2013 were young black boys. The British Association for Adoption & Fostering (BAAF) has identified in England that black boys over the age of three wait longer than white boys for an adoptive family. Leonie Walker who lives here in Northampton adopted her son and has never looked back. In this extract she speaks to BBC Northampton’s Mark Dean….