The number of children adopted from foster care in the UK and US rose significantly between 1998 and 2002. As a result, policies in both countries have placed increasing emphasis in the last decade on improving permanency outcomes for children placed for adoption. This review uses research evidence, mostly from the US, to identify the factors that have been shown to contribute to adoption stability and disruption. It concludes with a series of recommendations for policy and practice.
The findings of this review were split into three sections, focusing on factors relating to the child, the adoptive family and the agency, before concluding with some recommendations for policy and practice.
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