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1. Project 16-18 has produced a range of resources including a videotape "Adoption in My Life" and a set of audiotapes on lntercountry Adoption. For details of these contact Catholic Children's Society Nottingham. 0115 955 8811

2. The majority of the children placed during the period surveyed by the project joined their adopters as infants (74%). The remaining 26% were interagency placements of children from the care system, often placed older and sometimes with one or more sibling.

3. Kay Donley formerly Director of Spaulding for Children, in New York, is the originator of the term disruption. See Fitzgerald 1990 p.1.

4. See for example Borland et al 1991

5. See for example Macintyre, 1989

6. For example see Rosenthal & Graze 1994)

7. See for example Mcdonald etal 1991

8.I am particularly indebted to Gill Martin MA U.K.C.P. for providing information in respect of "healing weekends"

9. See for example documentation produced by British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering frequently used by Agencies in the preparation and assessment and linking of adopters and children. Also Regulation and Guidance which governs the work of Adoption Agencies.

10. A proportion of the Inter-agency fee is now dedicated to funding certain post-adoption services but is not designed to cover the resource intensive work needed when a placement is in crisis

11. Family Rights Group, London 020 7249-0008 Parent Aid Essex 01279 452166

12. Described in Adoption U.K. November 1997, no.83 pp27-8

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