Local authorities are obliged to assess adopters' support needs, if requested, but not to provide any specific services identified by those assessments.
Chief executive David Holmes said: "To make further progress we need to see a concerted whole system focus on increasing adopter recruitment, speeding up court processes, improving the adopter assessment process and ensuring adoption support.
Peter Sandiford, chief executive of PAC: "There must be an entitlement to adoption support for all adopters and others who provide permanency for children..
Two-thirds of prospective adopters surveyed by Adoption UK say they would seriously reconsider becoming adopters if there were no guaranteed post-adoption support.
Combined, it was envisaged that these two processes would ensure that we selected a recommendation that, whilst not well adopted at baseline, would have a greater chance of success through PCT and adopter level support.
Garfield is apparently the first customer in the country to get the upgrade, and things are going about how you'd expect things would for the early adopter: poor support, buggy software, and an all-around headache.
She added that under the Children and Families Bill local authorities will be "required by law to tell adopters what support is available".
Secondly, intermediary change agents can work proactively to expedite and widen innovation usage by reducing barriers, persuading adopters, and supporting adoption decisions.
When a new technology is introduced, there are individuals who adopt the technology at the early stage; it is these early adopters who often support the use of innovations (Rogers 1983).
Adopters also wanted support with how to use the book with their child, recommendations as to when a good age to start using it was and a named contact at the local authority if they needed support.
