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Supporting Adoption - Reframing The Approach

	Price: £10.95 Including free summary	BAAF, 1999 ISBN 978-1-873868-73-7

Directed by Professors Lowe and Murch at Cardiff Law School, this landmark research is concerned with the adoption of older children looked after by local authorities. It presents a critical review of the support available from diverse sources including educational, social work, legal, health, psychological services as well as that from informal networks and previous carers to older children and their families as the former make the transition from being looked after by the local authority to a new life with adoptive parents.

Supporting Adoption offers the most comprehensive review of adoption services in England and Wales in this decade and the picture that emerges is of a highly variable adoption practice. The authors also consider how best to ensure a much higher overall standard of adoption agency practice and propose recommendations and outline measures which would help refurbish the system.

This influential study will play a prominent role in delivering a strong message for practice as well as for law reform and structural change. It will also make a significant contribution to the current Quality Protects agenda and will prove invaluable for all those planning children's services.

The research was funded by the Department of Health and supported by a specially constituted Advisory Committee.