Concurrent Planning: A Retrospective Study of the Continuities and Discontinuities of Care, and Their Impact on the Development of Infants and Young Children Placed for Adoption by the Coram Concurrent Planning Project
Carers reflected on birth-family contact for 27 children subsequently adopted and one reunited with birth parents through Coram’s concurrent-planning project. Most children entered these placements by five months. Accounts described both continuity of care and disruption around frequent contact sessions. The author interpreted later attachments to carers as offsetting some early discontinuities.
Limitations: Retrospective carer reports about infants, not children’s own evidence or a controlled measurement of causal effects. Small specialist service sample. Related Coram studies may overlap. Evaluates Coram’s adoption service and was published in BAAF’s journal. These service and publication relationships should be considered.
- Research type
- Retrospective qualitative child-outcome study
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Age group
- Children
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: children
Adoption context: Adoption from care / permanent family placement
Programme: Coram concurrent-planning child follow-ups
Institutional context: Adoption-sector service evaluation
Evaluates Coram’s adoption service and was published in BAAF’s journal. These service and publication relationships should be considered.
Relationship identified. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: adoption from care, attachment, contact
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: England
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