Places of safety for abandoned children are finding themselves having to rely more on each other as many reach maximum capacity meaning they can no longer take in children. Lockdown ramification These unusual circumstances are because of lockdown measures that were imposed in March, where the movement and placement of children were suspended. “When lockdown started, the movement of children in care was put on hold completely. That meant that even if a child had already been matched with an adoptive family before lockdown and the process wasn’t finalised, those children are still in our care. There were some children that were supposed to be reunited with their biological families, [but] the process had to be put on hold,” says Nadene Grabham, the operations director at Door of Hope. Door of Hope is a home for abandoned and unwanted babies, with 73 children in their care. And 12 of those