Evaluation of the Adoption Support Fund: baseline survey of families
Before funded therapeutic support began, 1,008 parents and special guardians completed an online questionnaire, including 899 adoptive parents. Parent/carer SDQ and Child Behaviour Checklist ratings described higher child emotional and behavioural difficulties than reference populations. This record covers measured child needs rather than parents’ own wellbeing or service experience.
Limitations: Parents and carers supplied proxy evidence about children; adoptees did not provide these questionnaire ratings. Families selected for therapeutic funding are not representative of all adoptees. Adoption and special guardianship are combined in several results. Baseline comparisons do not demonstrate treatment effects. Later reports follow the same programme. 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
- Baseline child-outcome questionnaire study
- 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: Adoption Support Fund evaluation
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: education, mental health, Parent proxy evidence, post-adoption support
Review scope: Source checked: Full text. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: England
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- Commissioner
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- Funder role
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- Declared conflicts
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- Recruitment
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- Adoptee involvement
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