Over the past year, the adoption sector has been focused on improving of the use of early permanence – placing a child under fostering regulations with carers who are also approved as adopters. The early permanence model creates a significant opportunity for the child and foster carers/prospective adopters to establish a significant parenting relationship as would be the case for children born to and cared for by their birth parents. However, this policy and practice development has proved to be both contentious and complex and seen by some as a “backdoor route” to adoption.
To support practitioners to make better use of this opportunity, Coram has drafted a set of practice standards as a framework to guide good practice and standardisation across all agencies. The standards were commissioned by the National Early Permanence Working Group. They have been developed by the Coram Centre for Early Permanence in consultation with key stakeholders and in discussion with multiple agencies.
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