Supporting post adoption contact for children adopted from care: A study of social workers' attitudes
Responses to a case vignette from 112 adoption social workers in England and Wales explored attitudes to contact support. Workers emphasised children’s needs more than relationships between birth and adoptive parents, and were least oriented towards supporting birth parents. Attitudes varied between agencies.
Limitations: Hypothetical vignette responses may differ from actual practice. Professionals supplied the evidence, not adoptees or families receiving services. Historical service context. Publications from this programme may use overlapping participants or data.
- Research type
- Professional vignette survey
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Age group
- Children
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Children
Adoption context: Adoption from care
Programme: UEA Researching Adoption Support
Institutional context: No relationship identified in the material checked
No adoption-sector organisational relationship identified from metadata reviewed. Funding and conflicts were not comprehensively audited; this is not confirmation of institutional independence.
Bibliographic screening. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: contact, post-adoption support, professional perspectives
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: England and Wales
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