Increasing adoption placements for looked after children is the focus of recent initiatives to reform adoption law in both the UK and the USA. Developments in the law are aimed at providing permanent homes for looked after children by encouraging both increased adoptions and quicker decisions to move a child to adoption when the child cannot return home. New forms of permanent placement, in the form of a new type of guardianship, have also been created. Sarah Sargent compares and contrasts the initiatives in the USA and the UK.
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