Matching, Ethnicity and Identity: Reflections on the Practice and Realities of Ethnic Matching in Adoption
This evaluation compared a specialist service placing Black, Asian and dual-heritage children with a general adoption service in the same organisation. It combined placement statistics with staff and adopter interviews. The authors reported that recruiting minority ethnic families could enable placements with families of similar heritage. It examines service practice and matching, rather than measuring adoptees’ later identity or wellbeing.
Limitations: One commissioned agency evaluation, using adult accounts and placement statistics. Children were under five and were not interviewed. The reviewed abstract supplies no long-term child outcomes or detailed comparative estimates. Commissioned evaluation of an adoption agency and its specialist service; readers should take this relationship into account.
- Research type
- Mixed-methods service evaluation
- 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: Wainwright–Ridley ethnic-matching service evaluation
Institutional context: Adoption-sector service evaluation
Commissioned evaluation of an adoption agency and its specialist service; readers should take this relationship into account.
Relationship identified. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: adoption system, identity, transracial adoption
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: England
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- Declared conflicts
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- Recruitment
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- Adoptee involvement
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