Recruiting Adoptive Families: The Costs of Family Finding and the Failure of the Inter-Agency Fee
Researchers compared adoption expenditure in English local authorities and voluntary adoption agencies. Average costs, including overheads, were similar across sectors and exceeded the inter-agency fee. The paper examines how funding arrangements affected family finding for children; it does not measure adoptees’ wellbeing.
Limitations: Historical expenditure and differences in accounting limit comparisons. Organisational cost evidence is not direct adoptee testimony. Overlaps with the programme’s commissioned report. Department for Children, Schools and Families-funded research.
- Research type
- Economic / adoption-system research
- 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: Adoption Research Initiative: Inter-agency Fee
Institutional context: Government / government-commissioned research
Department for Children, Schools and Families-funded research.
Relationship identified. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: adoption system
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: England
- Funding
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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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