Over the next few months, the first regional adoption agencies (RAA) are due to launch, bringing together the adoption placement and support services of local authorities and voluntary sector agencies across entire regions.
The government hopes the move, first unveiled in 2015, will help improve the speed with which children are matched with prospective adopters by searching a wider area for placements as soon as adoption is identified as the best option for a child. It is also one of the measures included in the 2016 adoption strategy, Adoption: A Visionfor Change, to address a reduction in the number of adoptions as a result of two legal rulings.
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