Adoption, fostering and children looked after

Guidance and services

• Corporate parenting
• Guidance for regulated adoption services
• Guidance for regulated fostering services
• Young people leaving foster care
• Review and monitoring of a child or young person’s care and support plan
• Basic income pilot for care leavers: planning your next steps
• Basic income pilot for care leavers: overview of the scheme
• Advocacy standards and outcomes framework for children and young people
• Guidance for regulated advocacy services
• Advocacy service specification statutory advocacy for children and young people
• Guidance for advocacy providers on completion of the national performance reporting
• National approach to statutory advocacy: national performance reporting template local authority report
• National approach to statutory advocacy: All Wales report template
• Unaccompanied asylum seeking children: guidance for professionals
• Intercountry adoption guidance
• Joint adoption service arrangements for local authorities
• Directions for the delivery of the national adoption service
• A declaration of radical reform for children and young people's care
• Access to information (Post- commencement Adoptions) (Wales) Regulations 2005
• Children Receiving Care and Support Census and Looked After Children Census: privacy notice
• Reducing the criminalisation of children in care and care leavers: all Wales protocol
• Directions for providing a National Adoption Service: letter
• Independent visitors: guidance for local authorities
• Basic income pilot for care leavers: checklist
• Registering a care home for children

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Transformation of children’s services programme
  Policy and strategy
  Removing profit from the care of children looked after
• Removing profit from the care of children looked after: board discussions
  Collection
  Removing profit from the care of children looked after
• Removing profit from the care of children: update
  Policy and strategy
  Removing profit from the care of children looked after
• Improving Outcomes for Children programme
  Collection
• Basic income pilot for care leavers: research and evaluation
  Collection
• Adoption support services
  Report
• Reducing the number of children in need of care
  Report
  Improving Outcomes for Children Advisory Group
• Adoption disruption research study
  Report
• Adoption disruption study: final report
  Report
• An integrated approach to improving educational outcomes for looked after children: report
  Report
  Improving Outcomes for Children Advisory Group
• The Adoption and Children Act 2002 (Joint Adoption Arrangements) (Wales) (Amendment) Directions 2019
  Legislation
• The Adoption Agencies (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2020: impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Looked after children: children’s rights impact assessment
  Impact assessment
  Improving Outcomes for Children Advisory Group
• Removing profit from the care of children looked after: general briefing July 2024
  Policy and strategy
  Removing profit from the care of children looked after
• Removing profit from the care of children looked after
  Policy and strategy
  Removing profit from the care of children looked after