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Country Code: UK
Area: 212,999 sq mi (342,789km²)
Gross Domestic Product: 2,053 Billion Dollar
Population: 60,495,800
Organizations based in United Kingdom:

Foundation

Organization	State/Province	City
Barnardos		Essex
Every Child, UK		London
Foundation for the Relief of Disabled Orphans (F.R.O.D.O./Frodokids)		london
Malawi Orphan Fund		Lutterworth

Miscellaneous

Organization	State/Province	City
Staince Investment Ltd	London City of	London

Cases:

Abuse cases

Organization	Province	City
3 children adopted by Nicholas and Jill Newcombe	Cheshire	Prestbury
Alloma Gilbert, Christopher Spry and Child A	Gloucestershire	Tewkesbury
Boys in foster care with Ian Wathey and Craig Faunch	Wakefield	Pontefract
Child C	Haringey
Children at Kerelaw Residential School	North Ayrshire	Stevenston
Children in care of the Sisters of Nazareth
Children in foster care with Leeds man	West Yorkshire	Leeds
Children in foster care with Rex Case	Hampshire	Bassett
Children living at Springhill Residential School in Ripon	North Yorkshire	Ripon
Christian Blewitt	Worcestershire	Bromsgrove
Clare Robertson	Lancashire	Lancaster
David and Samuel Briggs (David and Samuel Filipache)	Armagh	Portadown
Dennis O'Neill	Shropshire	Minsterley
Girl adopted by couple in Kent, UK	Kent	Herne Bay
Haut de la Garenne	Jersey	Saint Martin
John Smith	West Sussex	Portslade
Nilanthie Perera	West Yorkshire	Wakefield
Two girls adopted by English couple, "loaned" to pedophiles	Manchester	Sale

Child trafficking cases

Report	Date
Brazil - misc trafficking cases	1980-01-01
Cambodia - misc trafficking articles case	1990-01-01
El Salvador - Children stolen during Civil War case	1979-01-01
Guatemala - more trafficking articles and stolen children cases	1979-01-01
Guatemala - lawyer Juan Varela aka "nino bandito" "baby bandit" case	1996-01-01
India - misc Child trafficking cases	1995-01-01
Kenya - Miracle babies case	2004-01-06
Madonna - David	2006-03-28
Nepal - misc trafficking articles case	2007-03-07
Pakistan - misc child trafficking cases	2009-01-01
Romania - Monica Baiaram case	1994-07-19

Adoption statistics:

Adoption imports

Country from	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
China	176	175	111	108	165	190	187	127	32
Russian Federation	14	13	18	33	40	41	29	32	59
India	14	19	24	24	26	32	23	37	28
Guatemala	24	13	28	29	16	21	30	46
Thailand	45	29	21	8	11	13	16	22	25
United States of America	15	22	19	17	13	18	14	23	19
Miscellaneous								40	34
Cambodia	1		6	40	18
Pakistan		4	2	7	3	6	7	8	6
Kazakhstan	2			1	3	6	5		13
Ethiopia		1			1	4	1	7	9
Philippines	3	7	4	5	6	3	3
Vietnam	10	11	15			1	1
Nepal			1	2	4	1	2	8
Nigeria				1	2	1	4	6
Romania	23	5	3	1		1
Sri Lanka	2	7	2	2	3	2	1
Bulgaria	3	3	6	4	1		1
Morrocco	3	1	3	1	1	1	3
Colombia	1	4	2		1	1	3
Kenya				1	3	2	2
Ghana	1				1	2	2
South Africa		1	3		1		2
Armenia	1		1	2	1	1	1
Guyana					1	2	1
Peru	1	1			1	2
Ukraine	2	1	2				1
Mexico	1	1	1	1			1
Brazil		2	1	1	1
Canada	1			1	1	1
Poland		1	1	1		1
Turkey		1	1	1		1
Malaysia			1			2
Iran	1					2
Mauritius			2			1
Georgia		1		1	1
Belarus	1			1	1
Sierra Leone						2
Chile			2	1
Gambia					1	1
Zambia				1		1
Mongolia					2
Hong Kong		1					1
Algeria	1					1
Madagascar			2
Albania							1
Bangladesh							1
Croatia							1
Montenegro							1
Lithuania	1		1
Brunei						1
Indonesia						1
Kosovo						1
Serbia						1
Swaziland						1
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines					1
Tunesia					1
Uganda					1
Azerbaijan				1
Greece				1
Grenada				1
Japan				1
Lebanon				1
Venezuela				1
Samoa			1
Taiwan			1
Bosnia Herzegovina		1
Portugal		1
Jordan	1
Latvia	1
Macedonia	1
Singapore	1
Total	351	326	285	301	332	369	345	356	225

Source: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)

Countries from which less than 5 children were adopted in 2007 are not presented in the table above, their total number is given under miscellaneous.

Adoption exports

Country from	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
United States of America		6	5	5		4			3	3	2	9
Canada											18
Sweden	1		4		2	1	1		4	1
France						1	1	1		2
Finland		1		1
Malta							1
Switzerland	1
Total	2	7	9	6	2	6	3	1	7	6	20	9

This information is compiled from the figures as reported by the receiving countries.

Reports:

Reports

Document	Date
All I ever did was arrange adoptions for mothers who would otherwise	1995-04-04
Adoption guide praises US law-breaker	1995-03-27
ROMANIAN ORPHANS IN DEMAND NEW RULERS LIFT ADOPTION RESTRICTION	1990-01-04
Bangladesh - war babies (1971)

Scotland latest post: Scottish care home children 'stigmatised' by Kerry		15	posts
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