Towards a Better Understanding of the Needs of Children Currently Adopted from Care: An Analysis of Placements 2003–2005
An adoption agency analysed the needs of 103 consecutive children placed for adoption from care during 2003–2005. They came from 41 English local authorities. Using the Matching Needs and Services approach, researchers identified nine groups with differing complexity of need and examined how services responded.
Limitations: Agency placement records describe identified needs rather than children’s own accounts. One agency’s historical placements are not a representative national sample or evidence of current service effectiveness. Families for Children, an organisation providing adoption services, conducted this in-house study of its placements. Readers may take that institutional relationship into account.
- Research type
- Administrative placement-needs study
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Age group
- Children
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Children
Adoption context: Mixed adoption pathways
Programme: Families for Children placement-needs study
Institutional context: Adoption-sector service evaluation
Families for Children, an organisation providing adoption services, conducted this in-house study of its placements. Readers may take that institutional relationship into account.
Relationship identified. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: administrative data, adoption from care, post-adoption support, service access
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: England
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