main content Public Service Agreement - Adoption

The London Borough of Bromley and the Government  made a Local Public Service Agreement (LPSA) for the three years, April 2002 to March 2005, to further improve services to local people. Adoption was one of thirteen service areas to be awarded extra funding - £93,000 over the three years - to meet or exceed the Government's target of improving the numbers of children adopted from public care by 50%. Where a service area is successful in meeting the agreed target the Council will receive £0.5 million in additional funding.

What did this mean for us in Bromley?

In 2004/05 18 children needed to be adopted from care to meet the agreed target.

To achieve these targets we had to recruit more adopters to meet the needs of the increased numbers of children requiring adoptive families. This was  to be achieved through additional recruitment by the Bromley Adoption Team and through membership of the Adoption South East Consortium (consisting of five other local authorities).

What was achieved?

During 2004/05 26 children were adopted from care in Bromley. This is 9.2% of the qualifying looked after children and put Bromley into the top performing group of local authorities in this area. This met and greatly surpassed the set Public Service Agreement target of 18 children (7% of qualifying looked after children) and has resulted in £0.5 million being available to the Council for new service developments.

Though the Adoption Services performed very well, in 2004/05 performance targets have been set for 2005/06 to maintain  expected performance at the Public Service Agreement level:that  is 7% of qualifying looked after children being adopted from care. An updating report will be available on performance  in 2005/06 in April 2006.

Contact Details

Telephone: 020 8313 4185
e-mail: Fostering.andAdoption@bromley.gov.uk

Address: Group Manager Adoption, Children and Young People Department, Civic Centre, Stockwell Close, Bromley, BR1 3UH.