Some 450 applications made on new adoption platform

A new online platform regulating and streamlining the adoption and fostering process in Greece received some 450 applications within just two weeks of going into operation, Alternate Social Solidarity Minister Theano Fotiou said on Friday.

Speaking in a radio interview, Fotiou hailed the platform's success, saying that of the 450 applications it received from its launch in April, 90 expressed an interest in fostering a child.

The new system aims to create a nationwide record of the children in state care and prospective parents by making it mandatory for all child protection institutions to submit a file on each for their wards who are being put up for adoption.

"The same is required of prospective parents, so that the system can know their needs and they don't have to apply to each institution individually," Fotiou said.

Fotiou stressed that the new...