The ground-breaking agreement will see voluntary adoption agency, CoramFamily, take on the role. The borough hopes the move will speed up itsadoption processes and cut lengthy delays for children waiting forpermanent homes. It previously struggled to find adoptive homes for itslooked-after children and failed to meet government targets.
Coram places an average of 70 children per year.
Conservative councillor Janet Mote, Harrow's lead member for children'sservices, said that the charity had a strong track record. Another pluspoint was that they were the only major independent adoption agency thatwas "non-denominational".
Harrow believes the agreement drawn up for the deal could become ablueprint for other local authorities.
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