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Opinion: Soapbox - Adoption support is a vital part of the process

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The face of adoption has changed enormously in recent years and so have some of the issues that adopters bring to our service. Nowadays, they have to live with the children's past and its continuing impact on their behaviour as well as coping with all the issues traditionally surrounding adoption.

There is national recognition that contemporary adoption involves hugechallenges and there is a duty on agencies to offer support. I believeour service tackles these challenges in a number of ways.

Firstly, it's multi-disciplinary, as staff have backgrounds in childclinical and educational psychology, family therapy and social work. Wealso adopt a team approach to whatever we do, and feedback is veryimportant to us. As well as offering feedback and welcoming it fromparticipants, the team writes a letter summarising the key themes andissues that have emerged from a meeting. Finally, we operate on a basisof direct access, and accept referrals from social workers and adopterson a first-come, first-served basis, with no distinction made betweenthem.

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