ETHNIC MINORITIES:

ETHNIC MINORITIES:.||=================================================================================||||C4N: KRISHNAN GURU MURTHY||ITN|ENGLAND: ||Kriss Akabusi interview intercut with following shots SOT|- Discusses experience of not being adopted||B/W STILL Kriss Akabusi as a child in school uniform with brother ZOOM IN||B/W STILL Akabusi with other children ZOOM IN||STILL Akabusi as a teenager ZOOM IN||EXT||GVs Akabusi along thru covered walkway in garden||||INT||Akabusi interviewed SOT|- Although people see me as happy go lucky person, feel quite distant in personal relationships - because of experience when young||SEQ B/W STILLS Black children available for adoption||Dr Ravinder Barn (Royal Holloway College, London) interviewed SOT|- Reason why more children seeking adoption are from ethnic backgrounds / more work needs to be done with natural family to reduce need for adoption||CSs Black boy and girl playing pat-a-cake||STILL Black children sitting in toy train||STILL Black girl blowing candles on cake||STILL Black brother and sister||GVs Lucy Walters (who adopted black children) ironing as interviewed SOT|- Very hard work to start / problems encountered because adopted daughter had been cared for by white foster parents||GVs Walters making bed||Walters ironing as interviewed SOT|- Some of people who do assessments are racist||SEQ B/W STILLS Black children available for adoption||Birmingham:||BV Woman into office for NCH Action for Children meeting||||TBV Woman taking seat||||GVs Woman discussing tactics to improve number of adoptions at meeting SOT||GVs Meeting in progress||||CSs Adverts seeking black families to adopt children||||GVs Claudine Lashley and husband Barry Lashley (who are seeking to adopt black child) playing with own children in playground||||INT||Claudine Lashley interviewed SOT|- Difference with situation in Caribbean - always extended family to look after ch...

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ETHNIC MINORITIES:.||=================================================================================||||C4N: KRISHNAN GURU MURTHY||ITN|ENGLAND: ||Kriss Akabusi interview intercut with following shots SOT|- Discusses experience of not being adopted||B/W STILL Kriss Akabusi as a child in school uniform with brother ZOOM IN||B/W STILL Akabusi with other children ZOOM IN||STILL Akabusi as a teenager ZOOM IN||EXT||GVs Akabusi along thru covered walkway in garden||||INT||Akabusi interviewed SOT|- Although people see me as happy go lucky person, feel quite distant in personal relationships - because of experience when young||SEQ B/W STILLS Black children available for adoption||Dr Ravinder Barn (Royal Holloway College, London) interviewed SOT|- Reason why more children seeking adoption are from ethnic backgrounds / more work needs to be done with natural family to reduce need for adoption||CSs Black boy and girl playing pat-a-cake||STILL Black children sitting in toy train||STILL Black girl blowing candles on cake||STILL Black brother and sister||GVs Lucy Walters (who adopted black children) ironing as interviewed SOT|- Very hard work to start / problems encountered because adopted daughter had been cared for by white foster parents||GVs Walters making bed||Walters ironing as interviewed SOT|- Some of people who do assessments are racist||SEQ B/W STILLS Black children available for adoption||Birmingham:||BV Woman into office for NCH Action for Children meeting||||TBV Woman taking seat||||GVs Woman discussing tactics to improve number of adoptions at meeting SOT||GVs Meeting in progress||||CSs Adverts seeking black families to adopt children||||GVs Claudine Lashley and husband Barry Lashley (who are seeking to adopt black child) playing with own children in playground||||INT||Claudine Lashley interviewed SOT|- Difference with situation in Caribbean - always extended family to look after ch...

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