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Where an adoptive placement breaks down (from introductions onwards), a Disruption Meeting will be held to identify the reasons for the breakdown and to learn lessons from the events surrounding the breakdown.

The Disruption Meeting will be held between 28 and 42 days after the placement breaking down, and will follow a set agenda.

Where the placement had already taken place, the Adoption Service Manager will chair the meeting and be responsible for preparing minutes of the meeting.

Where an Introductions Plan is terminated before the adoptive placement takes place, a manager from the Adoption Service will chair the meeting, unless it is considered by the Manager of the Adoption Service that an independent person should be appointed.

The meeting will be convened by the social worker linked to the prospective adoptive parents who will invite the prospective adopters, the social worker for the child, the current carers and any other relevant people.

The child’s social worker and the prospective adopters’ social worker should attend the Adoption and Permanency Panel to present the report from the Disruption Meeting. The Adoption and Permanency Panel should also receive copies of the Panel minutes recommending the adoption plan for the child, the prospective adopters’ approval and the placement, to enable learning points to be shared.

The Adoption and Permanency Panel may consider whether the plan for the child should be reviewed, (including a revision of the child’s checklist of needs and Child’s Permanence Report) and/or whether the prospective adopters’ approval should be reconsidered, and these issues may need to be further investigated and reports be presented to a subsequent meeting.

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