Big strides made in Vietnam’s adoption service

SENIOR members of the Adoption Authority have met with the Children’s Minister to report on “important improvements” in Vietnam’s inter-country adoption procedures.

Adoption Authority chairman Geoffrey Shannon and chief executive Elizabeth Canavan had travelled to the Far East country to “assess and report on the country’s progress on adoption and child protection processes”.

They concluded that big strides had been made since November 2008, when the US suspended adoptions from Vietnam because of dubious practices.