Impact Bond: "It's All About Me" National Adoption Scheme SOF
Stage of development: Complete
Policy sector: Child and family welfare
Intervention: The essence of IAAM is to combine targeted family finding for harder to place children with specific support for parents adopting these children. The IAAM service is provide by six Voluntary Adoption Agencies (VAAs) operating across the country. Each Voluntary Adoption Agency (VAA) will be referred a child who has been seeking adoption on a spot-purchase basis by a local authority. The VAA will first task the South London and Maudsley Hospital with conducting a multidisciplinary assessment of the child and producing an authoritative report on the child's needs. For the child, the VAA will then provide a 24-hour helpline, buddying, and respite care whilst they attempt to find an adoptive family. Prospective parents are given training and support tailored to the needs of the child, as agreed by the commissioning local authority and the provider VAA.
Start of service provision: 2013
Total investment commitment currency: GBP
Total investment commitment: 2000000
Total investment commitment (USD): 3126658.215
Target population: ‘Harder to place’ children who would be likely to be aged 4+, in a sibling group, with a disability or from a BME background– or a combination of these – and would have been on the Adoption register for at least six months.
Targeted number of service users or beneficiaries: 198
Targeted unit type: Individual
Actual number of service users or beneficiaries engaged: 198
Notes: The working capital provided by the Investors was drawn down by the providers (VAAs) as required to fund each stage of the intervention for each child participating in the programme, totalling £46,500 per child.