The government launched the Adoption Leadership Board in December 2013, to help drive sector-led improvement through monitoring the adoption system, providing data on performance, and disseminating best practice.
<strong>The long read</strong>: From 2013, as figures for violence, drug use and suicide at HMP Nottingham reached shocking new levels, the prison became a symbol of a system crumbling into crisis
The Care Review has “failed to fully understand" the role of independent reviewing officers (IROs), critics opposed to its recommendation to scrap the position have said.