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What the fund is for and how to apply for it.
Local authorities and regional adoption agencies can apply for therapeutic funding for eligible adoptive, special guardianship order and child arrangement order families.
The adoption process - eligibility, assessment, adoption agencies, adoption court orders, overseas adoptions and the rights of birth parents.
If you were adopted you can access your birth records or get on the Adoption Contact Register to find birth relatives - how to apply, forms and information for birth relatives
Tell Ofsted about a serious incident in an adoption support agency.
Legal rights, birth certificates, parental rights and child maintenance
Ofsted has today published a thematic review looking at how adoption services provided by regional adoption agencies (RAAs) contribute to good outcomes for children and families.
Application form to request information that we hold on individuals.
An overview of Ofsted's registration process for adoption agencies, fostering agencies, children’s homes, residential family centres and residential holiday schemes for disabled children.
Guidance on how Ofsted inspects adoption support agencies.
Adoption and children's care services provided by every local authority in England between 2012 and 2014.
You need to register to provide an adoption service in Wales.
Apply to adopt a child through your local council if you are 21 or over and can offer a stable home to a child
Information about the move to regional adoption agencies.
What to do if you are planning to adopt a child in the Philippines.
How to register an overseas adoption in the Adopted Children Register.
A summary for caseworkers and line managers of what attending an IRM review panel is like, including the documents you’ll need to submit.
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