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Prospective adopters in Wales have been let down by negative responses to their initial enquiries to adoption agencies, a survey by the St David's Children Society has found.

Of the 21 families in the study who had approached St David's, most had already made enquiries about adopting elsewhere and had negative responses.

Society director Gerry Cooney said the main problem for the families was an assumption they would only adopt babies, because their initial enquiry had asked about this. But many of the families went on to adopt older children after finding out that adopting a baby was not possible.

Baaf Adoption and Fostering Wales director Mary Romaine said: "A lot of people who approach social services about adopting babies will consider adopting older children."