Improving Adoption Services for Adults: end of project report and recommendations
This project combined consultations with adults affected by adoption, professional working groups and examination of service and legal arrangements. Around 25 people with lived experience, including 15 adoptees, contributed. The report describes barriers to records, tracing and therapeutic support, including costs, delays and insensitive responses, and develops recommendations for adult services.
Limitations: Small, purposively recruited consultation, including birth relatives as well as adoptees. Themes are not prevalence estimates or exclusively adoptee findings. The entry concerns the research report, not its separate practice guide; recommendations are not statements of current law. Funded by Adoption England and developed with adoption-service professionals.
- Research type
- Commissioned research / consultation and service review
- Source reviewed
- Full text
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Age group
- Adults
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: adults
Adoption context: Domestic adoption, including historical closed adoption
Programme: Improving Adoption Services for Adults (IASA)
Institutional context: Adoption-sector system body
Funded by Adoption England and developed with adoption-service professionals.
Relationship identified. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: adoptee voice, adult outcomes, post-adoption support, Records and origins, reunion, search
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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