Supporting direct contact after adoption

A significant number of adopted children have direct contact with members of their birth family after adoption, but what help may families need to manage these arrangements, and what does research say about the benefits and challenges of these arrangements?

This book outlines the findings of the Supporting contact study, which draws on the experiences of 51 adopters, four long-term foster carers and 39 birth relatives, all of whom were involved in agency-supported direct post-adoption contact arrangements. It is the first ever empirical study specifically looking at services to support direct post-adoption contact. It explores how support was provided, the range of contact services, and how these were experienced by the birth parents, children, adoptive parents, and agency staff, along with the relative costs of different approaches.

This is essential and reading for a wide range of practitioners, including social workers, support workers in child and family teams, managers, policy makers and legal and child mental health professionals.

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