Evaluation of regional adoption agencies: inception and scoping report
Baseline visits to 23 regional adoption agencies included interviews with 124 people, alongside further agency and national stakeholder interviews. The scoping study examined organisation and implementation of England’s regional reforms. Participants described challenges in sharing systems, agreeing resources and maintaining adoption practice during restructuring.
Limitations: This early-stage study chiefly uses professional and organisational accounts, not adoptee evidence or measured child wellbeing. Many agencies were not yet operational. Reported expectations of better services are not established effects. Later reports revisit 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
- Qualitative implementation 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: adoption system, post-adoption support, professional perspectives
Review scope: Source checked: Full text. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: England
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