Adoptionplus to create digital tool thanks to Barnardo’s Foundation’s first award

Adoptionplus has been awarded a grant of £228,690 for an innovative programme working with families with adopted children – the first award from the Barnardo’s Foundation.  Many adopted children in the UK have a history of trauma and loss and supporting their therapeutic needs is vital to their emotional health and wellbeing, and wider future outcomes.   The Department of Education, via the Adoption Support Fund has invested over £175 million in therapeutic provisions since 2015. However, there is currently no national system for measuring which therapeutic interventions are most effective.   Adoptionplus, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barnardo’s, will create a new digital data collection and analysis tool called STEP (Supporting Tracking & Evaluating Progress) that will…

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More vulnerable children will find loving families through Barnardo’s and Adoptionplus partnership

Specialist support to help more vulnerable children find loving families will be expanded across England through an exciting new partnership between Barnardo’s and Adoptionplus. Barnardo’s, the UK’s leading children’s charity, will merge its family placement services with Adoptionplus, the pioneering adoption agency that provides specialist placements and therapeutic support for the most vulnerable children and young people. The partnership will enable Adoptionplus to expand its reach beyond the South East and Midlands, while helping Barnardo’s family placement teams to develop even greater expertise in their field. Adoptionplus will retain its…

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