[Margaret Pilkington]

Entwisi, this case has been going on since May. The newspaper has pointed out that Essex Social Services are a long way off meeting their Government set targets for the number of adoptions in their area........I might be being a bit cynical but do you think there could be a link.

The other thing is that since the children have been in the care of Social Services the younger child has developed Hydrocephalus (water on the brain), no one can account for how this developed. The adoptive parents that had been identified for these children has now pulled out of the adoption because of the younger childs' medical problems.