What the buyer wrote
RAAs will replace local authority adoption services with a larger regional agency covering several local authorities. RAAs will recruit adopters, match looked after children with adopters, and provide support to adopters and their children. The rationale is that RAAs, where services are delivered on a greater scale with more innovative approaches to practice, will have real potential to improve outcomes for children. The four challenges that RAAs will aim to improve are: (i) The timeliness of matching; (ii) The recruitment of adopters; (iii) Adoption support; and (iv) Inefficiencies in the system. The aim of the evaluation is to assess the impact of RAAs on improving the delivery of adop…
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Details
- What the buyer calls it
- Evaluation of Regional Adoption Agencies (RAAs)
- How they are buying
- Advertised, open to anyoneAny supplier could bid without being invited first.
- Type
- services
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 31 Jan 2018
- Work ends
- 31 Dec 2021
- Kind of work
- Research, evaluation and insight
Who the buyer named
Clare Kiernan was the named contact on this notice.