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Adoption support reform announced

Package of reforms aimed at improving adoption support announced today by the Prime Minister.

• From: Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
• Published: 24 December 2012

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The Prime Minister has announced a new package of support for people who want to adopt to ensure more children get a stable, loving home without delays.

Adoptive parents do an incredibly important job and the Government wants to make sure that they, and their children, get the best possible support.

Reforms include:

• giving adoptive parents the same rights to pay and leave as birth parents;
• giving adoptive parents the right to take time off work to meet the children they are set to adopt before they move in with family, helping to make the transition to a new family be as smooth as possible;
• piloting personal budgets which will enable parents to have a freer hand in choosing the right support for their family.

Read full details of the announcement on the Department for Education website.

Published 24 December 2012