Children and Y Children and Y Children and Y Children and Y oung People's oung People's oung People's oung People's Scrutiny Committee Scrutiny Committee Scrutiny Committee Scrutiny Committee Tuesday, 19th March, 2019 Tuesday, 19th March, 2019 Tuesday, 19th March, 2019 Tuesday, 19th March, 2019
Regionalsing adoption May 2015, the Government announced changes to the livery of adoption services by proposing that all option services would need to be delivered on a gional basis by 2020. The premise for this was to: Increase the number of children adopted Reduce the length of time children wait to be adopted Improve post adoption support services to families who have adopted Reduce the number of adoption agencies thereby improving efficiency effectiveness
Our aims T o provide children with the right adopters T o improve earlier permanency planning at the right time, approving those • using: equipped to meet the needs of children Concurrent Planning waiting. • Fostering for Adoption • T o take innovative approaches to placing T o minimise changes of plan away from • ‘hard to place’ children adoption linking children with adopters • from enquiry stage onwards T o reduce delay and improve timescales where appropriate for matching and placement for all thoroughly preparing child and children –working with care planning • family for placement processes in each Council to improve T o reduce the likelihood of placement early identification / twin track planning • breakdown through timely and improved and to achieve best practise and matching, preparation and adoption consistency across the region. support.
Working with Trafford Partnership and accountability are embedded at all levels; • The Board • Bi-annual meetings • The Operations Group • Tracking – both in the LA and the RAA • Positive working relationships between managers and social workers promoted through sharing best practice and learning
Adoption Scorecard performance A1: Average time between a child entering care and moving in with its adoptive family A2: Average time between a local authority receiving court authority to place a child and the local authority deciding on a match to an adoptive family Average number of days 791 724 657 639 639 610 608 584 547 487 439 426 426 417 399 343 338 213 213 182 170 171 169 164 152 121 121 121 2008-11 2009-12 2010-13 2011-14 2012-15 2013-16 2014-17
Adoption Scorecard performance 1: Average time between a child entering care and moving in A2: Average time between a local authority receiving court authority with its adoptive family, 2014-17 to place a child and the local authority deciding on a match to an adoptive family, 2014-17 England average 520 days England average 220 days
Performance 2018 – 2019 to date Q1 Q1 Q1 Q1 Q2 Q2 Q2 Q2 Q3 Q3 Q3 Q3 Total to date Total to date Total to date Total to date ADM decisions ADM decisions ADM decisions ADM decisions 3 4 8 15 Placement Orders Placement Orders 1 4 1 6 Placement Orders Placement Orders granted granted granted granted Matched with Matched with 3 4 0 7 Matched with Matched with prospective adopters prospective adopters prospective adopters prospective adopters Placed with prospective Placed with prospective Placed with prospective Placed with prospective 2 2 3 7 adopters adopters adopters adopters Adoption orders Adoption orders Adoption orders Adoption orders 2 1 1 4 granted granted granted granted
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