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The Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) has said that local authorities and the family justice system must improve their procedures to speed up the adoption process. Such changes include allowing social workers increased discretion to make judgements about the suitability of potential adopters, reform to adoption panels, and of inspection and performance data.
Publishing a position statement setting out potential changes to the adoption system in response to criticism that it takes too long for a child in care to be permanently adopted, the ADCS recommended that:
- The information required about potential adopters should be reviewed, to ensure that only relevant information is collected;
- Reports to court and to adoption panels should contain more analysis, rather than description;
- Adoption panels should be streamlined so that they focus on the selection of adopters rather than care planning;
- Inspection and performance data should focus on outcomes rather than process; and
- Government policy should promote alternative forms of permanence, such as Special Guardianship, as well as adoption, as ways of offering a permanent and stable home for vulnerable children.
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