1. Regionalisation Progress
Yorkshire and Humber National Adoption Week
Conference and Celebration
Regionalisation Progress
Nic Haughton: Regional Project Manager
Howard Lovelady: West RAA Project Manager
Mary McKelvey: North and Humber RAA Project Manager
Sam Jones: South RAA Project Manager

2. Y&H leads the Way
Why are we doing this
What are we doing
What have we done so far
The role of a central Hub

3. Holding the child’s experience at the centre
Taking best practice from each local authority and ‘rolling out’ across the agency
Challenge of excellent local delivery across a large geographical area
6 local authorities: North Lincolnshire; Hull; North East Lincolnshire; East Riding; North Yorkshire; York.
1 local authority will host the agency on behalf of all 6
Increasing provision of Early Permanence Placements across the Agency

4. South Yorkshire RAA is made up of DCST, Sheffield, Barnsley and Rotherham adoption services
Work is being undertaken to highlight best practice to ensure south Yorkshire RAA has a soild foundation to be the best it can
Our vision is that DCST will act as the delivery vehicle working in partnership with the other local authorities
The main focus of our service is better outcomes for children and a greater, more consistent approach with regard to support for our adopters.

5. A regional agency with a local delivery
Partnership between local authorities
Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees , Leeds and Wakefield
LA led by Leeds Children’s Services under a Joint Committee
Working with the voluntary adoption alliance on families and adoption support
More targeted and prompt approval of adopters
More timely family finding and matching at a regional level incl VAA families
Adoption support delivered locally but addressing regional needs