Last year, the Department for Education announced that adoption activity days would be part of the government's adoption reform agenda.
There's a wealth of activity days and weekends available that are suitable for everyone and businesses must become more off-site sensitive.
Like all the activity days, the atmosphere resembled a wedding reception at which the children have been especially well catered for.
Crystal (01235 824324) has put together a programme of British holidays including hotels and tickets for sporting events, theatres, theme parks, concerts and activity days.
We can do what a lot of working parents do and pack them off to clubs and expensive activity days, but this feels ridiculous.
No one has felt that more than Katy, who has attended three adoption activity days with her foster sons Connor, seven, and Daniel, five.
Adoption parties - or adoption activity days, as Bridget prefers to call them - are fun-filled events that bring together children looking for parents and parents looking for children – in other words, kids in care and would-be adopters.
Of the 225 children aged 18 months to 10 who attended the five activity days held as part of the pilot - from January 2011 to March 2013 - 42 have been placed for adoption; a success rate of nearly 20%.
It gathered statistics based on the number of injuries per million activity days, and found that for rides in theme parks, there were eight injuries for each million days.
And understanding the factors that make a good match is the focus of a review being conducted by Baaf: it is considering evidence garnered from placement activity days where prospective parents meet children searching for a family.
They believed a bold new approach was necessary to tackle the problems facing the "hardest-to-place" children seeking adoptive families, and piloted a system of adoption activity days where potential adopters meet children in a group setting.
