Evaluation of the Adoption Support Fund: second follow up survey of parents and carers
At the final survey, six months after the preceding wave, 681 parents and carers responded: 68% of the baseline cohort. Ninety per cent concerned adopted children. Parent/carer child assessments indicated that some school-age improvements, particularly among boys, were maintained or extended. Preschool CBCL scores did not show statistically significant improvement.
Limitations: These are proxy child assessments in a selected therapeutic-support sample. Attrition, mixed adoption/special-guardianship results, pandemic disruption and absence of an untreated comparison group limit interpretation. Results varied across measures and subgroups and do not establish that therapy caused improvement. This is the third wave of the already-recorded evaluation cohort. The Department for Education commissioned and published this evaluation of a fund for which it has responsibility. Readers may consider that institutional relationship.
- Research type
- 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: Adoption Support Fund evaluation
Institutional context: Government / government-commissioned research
The Department for Education commissioned and published this evaluation of a fund for which it has responsibility. Readers may consider that institutional relationship.
Relationship identified. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: longitudinal research, 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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