Policy paper

Adoption: a vision for change

How the government plans to address challenges in the adoption system over the next 4 years.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 27 March 2016
• Last updated: 19 December 2016
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  1. 19 December 2016

     Added a letter from Edward Timpson explaining how the government plans to improve adoption support.

  2. 31 March 2016

     Updated foreword with amended timescales for the percentage of children with an adoption order returning to care and the percentage of children on a residence order returning to care.

  3. 27 March 2016

     First published.

This was published under the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

Applies to England

Documents

Adoption: a vision for change

Ref: DFE-00094-2016

PDF, 676 KB, 43 pages

Adoption reform: letter from Edward Timpson

PDF, 363 KB, 3 pages

Details

This paper sets out:

• progress since 2010
• current challenges
• our vision for the adoption system in 2020 and how we’ll achieve it

The letter from Edward Timpson also gives some background on how the government plans to improve adoption support.