Professor June Thoburn of the University of East Anglia has been awarded an Emeritus Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust to fund the 14-month study, which will examine policy in countries including the UK, USA, Sweden, France and Spain. Adoption as a route out of care will be scrutinised.
The aim is to produce a glossary of terms and guidance on interpreting international statistics to aid policy-makers, practitioners and academics.
Professor Thoburn said: "Governments tend to pick up bright ideas from all over the place without necessarily understanding what the circumstances are in those countries."
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