Special guardianship is an increasingly common permanence option that often places children who cannot live with their birth parents in the care of a relative. More than 21,000 children have been placed with special guardians since 2010. Under a special guardianship order (SGO), the special guardian assumes all day-to-day parenting responsibilities for a child or young person but the legal link they have with their birth parents remains, unlike with adoption.
Recent research from the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory, led by Dr John Simmonds from CoramBAAF and Professor Judith Harwin from Lancaster University, shows that SGOs provide children with a safe, permanent home with family members.
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