To mark the start of National Adoption Week (15th – 21st October), the Minister for Children, Huw Irranca-Davies has paid tribute to the many adoptive parents across Wales who have made new families with some of the most vulnerable children in the country, and who are supporting them to fulfill their potential in loving homes.

Please read more at https://gov.wales/newsroom/health-and-social-services/2018/adoption-week/?skip=1&lang=en. which also highlights that “Welsh Government has commissioned further work with Cardiff University that builds on the Adoption Cohort Study, a unique study of almost 400 children adopted from care which evidences a level of detail about early adversity, family relationship quality, child psychological health. This next phase will directly engage with a cohort of families to explore their experiences of informal and formal sources of adoption support in Wales, including child psychological well-being and children’s experiences at school (including additional learning needs).”