Evaluation of regional adoption agencies: second report, 2019 to 2020
The second annual evaluation combined repeat agency case studies with administrative data and cost analysis. A matched-comparison analysis estimated a 14-day shorter interval from placement order to placement for children in operational regional agencies, and a 35-day shorter interval for children classified as harder to place.
Limitations: Non-random agency rollout and comparison assumptions limit causal interpretation. Results concern placement timing, not children’s subsequent wellbeing or adoptees’ accounts. The programme was still developing, and later evaluation uses overlapping data with revised methods. Parent-experience material is outside this summary. Commissioned and published by the Department for Education, which has responsibility for the adoption system evaluated. Readers may take that institutional relationship into account.
- Research type
- Mixed-methods longitudinal service evaluation
- Source reviewed
- Full text
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Age group
- Children / Adolescents
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Children / adolescents
Adoption context: Mixed adoption pathways
Programme: Regional Adoption Agencies evaluation (2018–2021)
Institutional context: Government / government-commissioned research
Commissioned and published by the Department for Education, which has responsibility for the adoption system evaluated. Readers may take that institutional relationship into account.
Relationship identified. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: administrative data, Adoption matching, adoption system, longitudinal research
Review scope: Source checked: Full text. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: England
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- Adoptee involvement
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