The Department for Education launched the Adoption Support Fund in May 2015, with a government commitment to continue to fund therapeutic support for families whose children left care through adoption or special guardianship until March 2020. Funding has increased year on year and the 2019-20 budget is more than double that offered in the first […]
Read More...This post was written by St. Andrew’s Children’s Society, follow this link to their website. LGBT Adoption and Fostering Week 2019 runs from the 4th – 10th March and is sponsored by New Family Social. There has been a fairly steady rise in the number of adoptions in Scotland by the LGBT community since 2010 […]
Read More...Please see here for a recent press release from The Department for Education on the Adoption Support Fund. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/thousands-more-families-to-benefit-from-the-adoption-support-fund
Read More...Please see here for a recent press release on regional adoptions agencies from Charlotte Ramsden, Chair of the ADCS Health, Care and Additional Needs Policy Committee.’ http://adcs.org.uk/care/article/comment-on-regional-adoption-agencies
Read More...The 26th of November saw CVAA host its annual Members’ Event at the Alrington Conference Centre in London. Members attending the event were introduced to CVAA’s new CEO Maggie Jones and were also given the opportunity to listen to and egage with some fantastic speakers. CVAA would like to thank Hugh Thornbery, for providing an update on the […]
Read More...The first of its kind, the Adopting Together model offers tailored support to adopters through specialised assessment, training and therapeutic support. 10 of 11 children featured at the first Adopting Together profiling and recruitment event in June were linked with prospective adoptive parents The first placements were made through Adopting Together in October 2018 […]
Read More...CVAA’s Chair, Ray Shostak, and Vice Chair and CEO of After Adoption, Lynn Charlton, had a very productive meeting with the Minister this week. They were able to highlight the expertise within our membership and the valuable work carried out by VAAs, and the crucial role they play in the adoption system. We look forward […]
Read More...The CVAA Trustee Board are pleased to announce the appointment of Maggie Jones as the new CEO of CVAA. Maggie joins CVAA from Foundation, a social care and housing charity operating across the North of England and brings a wealth of experience in both leading substantial service delivery organisations and the development of infrastructure support […]
Read More...The Quarter 1 and Quarter 2 ASGLB data for 2017/18 is now available to download from the CVAA website. The key headlines are: • The number of children waiting at the end of September 2017 was 2550. This is a 4% decrease from June 2017 when there were 2650 children waiting with a placement order not […]
Read More...This January CVAA were delighted to be at SSAFA’s London offices exploring early permanency for our final PIF funded Practice Excellence event. We looked at what the data tells us about timelines and the effect of the introduction of early permanence (EP) schemes. Elaine Dibben, CoramBAAF, provided a background to EP and a national perspective across […]
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