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After Adoption: Working with adoptive families

	Price: £9.95	BAAF 1996 ISBN 978-1-873868-27-0

We can all try to hear what these authors are saying to us, believe they know what they are talking about, and use what we hear to help us empower those people who are taking on one of the most challenging tasks in modern life to do the job successfully.
Phillida Sawbridge

In the mid 1990s, post-adoption services were at a critical point. Recognition of their importance was gathering momentum, but services continued to be under-resourced and under-funded. The absence of any proposal in the government’s review of adoption law to develop post-adoption services had also been disappointing.

After Adoption is the first publication in Britain to concentrate solely on the development of post-adoption support for adoptive families. A wide range of issues and perspectives are covered and this collection focuses on the views and experiences of adoptive families; the ‘hit and miss’ nature of post-adoption services, the range of services required from social work agencies and education and health services; the need for cultural sensitivity in providing services, and the development of progressive practice and innovative models of support.