I fostered some babies direct from hospital and sometimes was involved in working with the new adoptive parents, showing them how to do things like bathing, feeding etc.
The religious houses did some dreadful things in the way they managed young girls who were pregnant.
An even worse alternative back in those days was the illegal backstreet abortions, often resulting in such buchery that the girl could never ever have any future pregnancy.
Some local authorities back then did try to set up fostering arangements for these young Mums to go into with their babies - when they could not return to their homes. However, foster parents back then, djdnot receive any sort of wage or payment, just a very small amount of money to cover out-of-pocket expenses, so it made it extremely difficult to attract people into fostering.
I am, so fortunately, not in a position to know whether an apology can help in any way. It does, thought, accept how wrong so much of this forced taking away of babies were. There were, of course, many of these babies adopted into otherwise childless homes, and brought up with great love and care.