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National Adoption Strategy launches

A new National Adoption Strategy will centre around improving recruitment of potential adopters and allowing them to be matched with children from any ethnic group, the government has said.
The government wants to approve adoption processes. Picture: Adobe Stock
The government wants to approve adoption processes. Picture: Adobe Stock

Launching the strategy today (26 July), the Department for Education said it wants to improve adoption services in England by "putting in place better recruitment across the country and removing any unnecessary delays, through more training for front line staff, improving approval process and funding for targeted recruitment campaigns".

A total of £1m will go to Regional Adoption Agency (RAA) leaders to improve recruitment and the adopter approval process, and to support early arrangements where a child is placed with foster carers who are also their prospective adopters when first removed from their birth family so bonding can begin straight away.

The government said efforts to improve recruitment will "focus on matching prospective adopters, from any community, with children and young people and to ensuring adopters are not deterred from pursuing adoption because of their background".

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