It concluded that adopted children and young people have enhanced outcomes across health, education and future employment compared with those in other care placements.
The findings show a positive impact of adoption on children, and reduced reliance on publicly funded support in childhood and later life. The report did not set out to (nor did it) devalue other forms of care and permanence such as special guardianship, foster care or kinship care; nor did it advocate for reducing investment in keeping families together. It did make a very strong, child-centred case for ensuring that adoption remains an option for that very small group of children for whom permanence is necessary, but family and community options are impossible.
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