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Adoption
Blueprint for an Adoption Support Service
1. An outcomes-based vision for adoption support services with measurable aims/goals.
2. A methodology for quantifying the potential need for adoption support services
3. A Governing body for adoption support services with representation from Health Services, Education Services, and Adopters
4. A multi-agency, multi-professional service delivery model
5. Provision of information about services
6. Adopter Engagement
7. Communication with children and young people
8. One initial referral and assessment process provides access to a range of services within an identified timescale
9. Adoption Support Services are structured and co-ordinated to meet different levels of need
9a. Universal Services
9b. Peer-to-Peer Support
9c. Targeted Services
9d. Specialist services
10. Appropriate response to situations of possible risk
11. The agency commissions and procures services
12. Birth family relationships are promoted
13. Support to Birth Parents
14. Support to Adopted Adults
15. A Workforce Development Plan
16. Monitoring and Evaluation
17. Promotion of improvements to the wider looked after and adoption system
Coronavirus
Managing introductions and the placement of children with their prospective adopters
Obtaining Court Records for Access to Information and Intermediary Work
Information for adopters
Is adoption for me?
How do I begin?
How do I become an adopter?
How do I choose between fostering and adoption?
Living together as a family
Support for adopters
Information for adults who were adopted or in care
How to trace birth family members
Useful organisations for adults who were adopted or in care
Information for birth parents
I'm pregnant and want my child to be adopted
My child has been taken into care
Useful organisations for birth parents
Fostering
Coronavirus
Making Arrangements for Contact for Children in Care
Short breaks and Covid-19
Supervision and Assessment of Foster Carers and Prospective Foster Carer Households
The placement of children in foster care
FAB project
Information for foster carers
Is fostering for me?
Where do I begin?
How do I become a foster carer?
How do I look after a fostered child?
Support for foster carers
Kinship Care
Coronavirus
Supporting children and carers in forming new family arrangements
Special Guardianship
Legal Framework
Research and Evidence
Statistics
Support for Special Guardians
Rapid Evidence Review on Special Guardianship
Information for kinship carers
Options for step-parents
What is kinship care?
What is private fostering?
What is Special Guardianship?
Family placement
Developing Best Practice for Virtual Panel Meetings
Amendments to the regulatory framework
Factors to consider when setting up a virtual panel
Managing the panel process
Definition of visits, interviews and meetings
The impact of coronavirus on children and young people who were or are in care
Health
Adult Medical Reports in Family Placement
Escalation Process for Prospective Adopters if GP declines to complete a medical report
Legal
Obtaining Court Records for Access to Information and Intermediary Work
Summary of The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (Steps) (England) Regulations 2021
Summary of the Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2020
Unlawful Placements, Unregulated Placements and ‘Other Arrangements’
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