Services which may be commissioned from CVAA members
(for placements not made by CVAA Agency)

• Services to birth families during adoption proceedings

• Pre commencement Access to information and intermediary work

• Identity work with children, including life-story book work

• Support and supervision of contact, including letterbox contact

• Assessment of adoptive families for support services

• Acting as Children’s Guardians or Reporting Officers

• Undertaking Inter-country adoption assessments

• Family Support Services

• Overseas work for other agencies

• Counselling pregnant women

• Working directly with adoptive children and young peoples groups

• Running Parenting Skills courses

• Step-parent/relative assessments

• Membership of/Chairing Adoption Panels

• Concurrent Planning Projects

• Respite/short-break care

• Research Projects into any/all aspects of adoption

• Training and consultation for local authorities

Fees for commissioned services are subject to negotiation with individual agencies