The ARi (Adoption Research initiative) is a group of major research projects which focuses on permanence planning, matching, support for adoptive placements and the costs of adoption. The ARi was commissioned by the former Department for Education and Skills. Its dissemination and implementation programme is being funded by the Department for Education.
The findings from the projects hold key messages for all who are concerned with securing permanence and stability for children who cannot live with their birth parents.
Messages from the projects will be disseminated in various ways to different interest groups throughout 2010 through to the summer of 2011. There are seven studies in the initiative:
-The characteristics, outcomes and meanings of four types of permanent placement
-Protecting and promoting the well-being of very young children
-Family Finding and Matching in Adoption
-Pathways to permanence for children of black, Asian and mixed ethnicity
-Researching adoption support
-Enhancing adoptive parenting
-Adoption and the Inter-agency Fee
table of projects (35.5 kB) (with more detail)
Click here for more information about the background to, and aims of, the ARi
