Research and analysis

Adoption support fund: second follow up survey of parents and carers

Findings from the second follow up survey of families whose children received support from the adoption support fund.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 15 December 2022

Applies to England

Documents

Evaluation of the adoption support fund: second follow up survey of parents and carers

Ref: ISBN 978-1-83870-410-0, DFE-RR1272

PDF, 683 KB, 79 pages

Details

This report is part of a 3-year evaluation of the adoption support fund. It relates to the third and final wave of an online questionnaire completed by adoptive parents and carers of children with a special guardianship order.

The second follow up survey was completed 6 months after support from the adoption support fund ended.

Families were asked a range of questions covering:

• the mental health and emotional well being of them and their children
• their perception of how helpful the support had been
• their family needs at that point in time

You can also read the baseline survey of families and results of the first follow up survey.

Published 15 December 2022