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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