With the Government pressing for more children to be adopted, Nigel Priestley Senior Partner and James Wilson, Community Care Lawyer, with Ridley and Hall solicitors recently were welcomed at the First National Conference on Post Adoption Support. The conference organised by the leading expert, After Adoption UK was held in Cardiff.

Delegates came from the UK and USA. Ridley and Hall has set up a specialist Adoption Support Team.

The photograph shows Nigel Priestley with June Thoburn, Emeritus Professor of Social Work at the University of East Anglia and Lyne Charlton Chief Executive of After Adoption UK.

Professor Thoburn is one of the country’s most distinguished social work academics and has recently completed a major study on children in care.