Staying in touch - New resources to support contact after adoption
Research in Practice
Supporting evidence-informed practice with children and families, young people, adults, carers and communities
What does good practice look like for supporting children and adults to stay in touch post-adoption?
Explore a new open access resource hub to help practitioners plan for and support these important relationships.
The extent to which adopted children and young people stay in touch with birth relatives and important people has lifelong implications for everyone involved. These relationships can mitigate loss and the damage of separation, provide love and reassurance, connection to family history, religion and culture as well as support into adulthood.
Staying in touch: Contact after adoption brings together a range of materials and resources that can be used in the training and supervision of social workers and contact supervisors as well as in training adopters. At the heart of the resources is the voice of lived experience of adopted children and young people and birth relatives. Each topic area supports practitioners when drawing up contact and support plans. The resource hub has three key sections:
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Using the resources
Practitioners are encouraged to explore the resources in the different sections and think about how they might use these when thinking about contact and support plans. Some of the resources are also designed for practitioners to use with adoptive parents to help them think about the importance of children maintaining relationships with their birth relatives after adoption.
Although the hub is aimed at those working in adoption, it also offers an accessible way for all practitioners working in children’s social care to think about different ways that children and young people can be supported to maintain relationships with their birth relatives.
I think these changes are brilliant and should be taken on board for all transitions where a child has been with carers for a long period of time
Campaigner for Children In Care, Therapeutic Mentor, Counsellor, NLP Practitioner
1wI am so glad these changes and cultures are filtering down. We support too many carers feeling devistated as they are rubbed out of children’s lives once they move to adoption. Sometimes children’s whole life which was full of love and important memories are wiped out or they are deemed not important enough. Foster carers are important to many children. Children must be the full focus in their own life story. Adopters are the giardians of children’s early memories especially pre verble and young children.Please do not remove important relationships as this is not in the child’s best interest research and the voices of adoptees tell us. Let us all work together and remember ‘you don’t have to break a bond to make a bond’ 💓 love these resources, bravo 👏
Social Care Worker at NGO-ISAC
2wI agree all torm & condition
Social Care Worker at NGO-ISAC
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