
Regional adoption agencies (RAAs) bring together local authority adoption placement finding services and voluntary and statutory sector adoption support services across regions of England. All councils are meant to be part of a regional shared approach by April 2020. The evaluation of RAAs runs from January 2018 to December 2021, with the overall purpose aiming to assess their impact on improving the delivery of adoption services.
This second report presents findings from the first stage of the three-year evaluation, based on analysis of Adoption Scorecard and cost data, and extensive qualitative research with six case study RAAs.
The RAAs were at varying stages of delivery when the research was carried out in autumn/winter 2018/19; four had been in operation for more than a year, one had just launched and one was about to go live.
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