They set out the case for change and outline the department's thinking so far about
what regional adoption agencies might look like in order to stimulate ideas and discussion locally.
AUK chief exec @SueAB68 recently spoke to BBC Radio Devon about the challenges and benefits involved in setting up a
proposed regional adoption agency in the South West.
Regional Adoption Agencies Manifesto commitments were clear that the government wants to increase the scale at which adoption services are delivered by
introducing regional adoption agencies.
The announcement also includes plans to
boost regional adoption agencies where councils merge to give children access to up to 10 times as many prospective adopters.
And in an attempt to get a wider range of possible adoptive parents there will be
regional adoption agencies, working across local authority boundaries.
The document sets out the government's proposal to support organisations interested in setting up
regional adoption agencies.
end delay for vulnerable children in care by providing larger local pools of approved adopters by making sure every single council is part of
a regional adoption agency by 2020, backed by # 14 million