• The fees charged by CVAA members for interagency placements have been set at a level which recognises the cost of maintaining a professional placement service.

• Other services may be commissioned by agreement.

• Voluntary income of CVAA members is used to subsidise access to information, provision of intermediary services and adoption support to placements made in the days before interagency fees were charged. Voluntary income is also used to develop new and innovative services.

Inter-Agency Placement Fees

• The CVAA placement fee is set at 65% of NJC spinal column point 38 (currently £19,889)

• The fee is increased by 10% for agencies in the London area.

• The arrangements for payment of the interagency placement fee is as described in the BAAF Form H.

• Sibling groups:

  • for 2 siblings, 1 ½ times the fee

  • for 3 siblings, 2 times the fee

  • for each additional sibling, another ¼ fee

• Adoption Support Module – this is set at 1/6 of the full fee for each child placed. It is a one-off payment, made at the time the adoption order is granted. It purchases access to the CVAA member’s adoption support services for adoptive children and adopters indefinitely.

Note: If the Adoption Agency ceases to operate – Payment of the fee for the adoption support module buys the adoptive family and adopted child/adult access to the CVAA Adoption Agency’s core adoption support services indefinitely. The agreement is entered into in good faith and CVAA members who enter into such agreements intend to honour them. However in the unlikely event that an adoption agency ceases to exist, there will be an expectation that part of its assets should be devoted to providing a level of post adoption service to adoptive families and adopted children and adults in the most suitable way available at the time.