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‘It shouldn’t just be these kinds of sunshine stories’: social workers’ discussion of ‘past difficulties’ as a key theme in adoption assessment interviews

‘Det ska inte bara vara dom här solskenshistorierna’: Familjerättssekreterares diskussion om lämplighet och trovärdighet i adoptionsutredningar

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