Supporting adoption and supporting families that adopt value for money

Bonin, Eva-Maria; Lushey, Clare; Blackmore, Jenny; Holmes, Lisa; Beecham, Jennifer

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Supporting adoption and supporting families that adopt value for money

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posted on 2015-07-30, 13:40 authored by Eva-Maria Bonin, Clare Lushey, Jenny Blackmore, Lisa Holmes, Jennifer Beecham

Based on a review of national statistics and UK-based quantitative research studies published since 2000, this paper summarises our research on the costs associated with adoption and post-adoption support for families who adopt children from care. 1 The cost of adoption from age 4 to age 16 was estimated, alongside the cost savings associated with three ‘what if’ policy scenarios. The main points from the literature review are identified, as well as the evidence gaps.

Funding

Department for Education

History

School

Social Sciences

Department

Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

Research Unit

Centre for Child and Family Research

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Supporting adoption and supporting families that adopt value for money

Citation

BONIN, E-M. et al., 2013. Supporting adoption and supporting families that adopt value for money. Executive summary. London: Childhood Wellbeing Research Centre, Working Paper No. 21.

Publisher

Childhood Wellbeing Research Centre (CWRC)

Version

VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2013

Notes

This is a report. The Childhood Wellbeing Research Centre is an independent research centre with funding from the Department for Education. It is a partnership between the Thomas Coram Research Unit (TCRU) and other centres at the Institute of Education, the Centre for Child and Family Research (CCFR) at Loughborough University and the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) at the University of Kent.