‘We were human beings’: UK families seek apology over historic forced adoptions

Last week Liz Harvie spoke in parliament about the painful impact of the policy of taking babies from unmarried mothers

Liz Harvie was 16 years old when she discovered her name was actually Claire Watts.

Sitting on the sofa of her childhood home, on a tree-lined street in a Birmingham suburb, she had just been given a sheet of paper containing the first chapter of her life.