The government are now saying that the "adoption target" ceased in 2006. For year 1/4/5-31/3/6 there was BV163 which was adoptions from care. This remained in year 6-7 and 7-8, but was redefined to include special guardianships. It is misleading to say that the target ended when it was redefined.
People who read my blog will be aware that I have for some time argued that most (if not all) diseases of aging are caused by cells not being able to produce enough of the right proteins. What happens is that certain genes stop functioning because of a metabolic imbalance. I was, however, mystified as to why it was always particular genes that stopped working. Recently, however, there have been three papers produced: Aging is associated with a systemic length-associated transcriptome imbalance Age- or lifestyle-induced accumulation of genotoxicity is associated with a generalized shutdown of long gene transcription and Gene Size Matters: An Analysis of Gene Length in the Human Genome From these it is obvious to see that the genes that stop working are the longer ones. To me it is therefore obvious that if there is a shortage of nuclear Acetyl-CoA then it would mean that the probability of longer Genes being transcribed would be reduced to a greater extent than shorter ones.
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Both me and the missus have mental illness (nothing serious (in a dangerous way) PTSD and depression) and frankly we live in fear of the social services - indeed in part this fear led to the stillbirth of our daughter last year.
Thankfully we have been blessed a second time, and have managed to keep out of the reaches of the social services, hopefully it will stay this way.
Though it doesn't say much for the wellfare state that things should be this way.
Now all we have to worry about is a miracle cure by David Freud, and the subsquent endless meals of beans on toast.
btw what happened to the disablity discrimantion act - I thought it was meant to stop this sort of thing - oh yeah I forgot we are nuts and don't count. Still I guess it is nice that it exists to provide yet more tick boxes for government to show just how enlightened the country is in matters of social policy.