The Consortium of Voluntary Adoption Agencies (CVAA) commissioned report is based on data from 2021 and claims the savings were made through improvements to adopted children’s health, education and employment prospects.
It specifically claims that children who are adopted have “improved outcomes” when compared with “staying in care or living in special guardianship placements”.
But Andy Elvin, chief executive of fostering agency Tact Care, has branded the research as “egregious and divisive”.
“The CVAA is claiming that adoption will save lots of money and we should be pushing more children through for adoption in order to achieve these savings,” he wrote in a blog CYP Now.
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