Evaluation of regional adoption agencies: final report
The final wave combined professional interviews, agency surveys and national administrative data. Difference-in-differences analysis of pre-pandemic placement records estimated a 14-day shorter interval from placement order to placement in operational regional agencies. There was no statistically significant change in the overall interval from entry to care to adoption order.
Limitations: The non-random rollout requires assumptions about comparison trends; estimates are not experimental proof. Quantitative and interview evidence cover different periods, and COVID-19 disrupted the final wave. These are service indicators and professional accounts, not adoptee-reported wellbeing. Earlier annual reports overlap with this analysis; parent-experience findings are 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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