The complexities of making recommendations for adoption and fostering panels: An investigation of the biographic and professional influences on panel members’ decision-making and attitudes
Observations of adoption and fostering panels across England, biographical interviews and panel minutes were analysed together. The researcher interpreted participants’ biographies, values and professional identities as influencing recommendations, with conflicts sometimes emerging between positions.
Limitations: This is interpretative system research rather than adoptee testimony or a quantitative test of panel fairness. The abstract does not state numbers of panels or participants. Adoption and fostering panels are combined; the author’s conclusions about impartiality are attributed interpretations.
- Research type
- Doctoral thesis
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Age group
- Children / Adolescents
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Children / adolescents
Adoption context: Mixed adoption pathways
Programme: Weekes adoption and fostering panel research
Institutional context: No relationship identified in the material checked
No adoption-sector organisational relationship identified from metadata reviewed. Funding and conflicts were not comprehensively audited; this is not confirmation of institutional independence.
Bibliographic screening. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: Adoption matching, adoption system, professional perspectives, research methodology
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: England
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- Declared conflicts
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- Adoptee involvement
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