Ofsted Registered Adoption Support Agency
Joanna North Adoption is an Ofsted Outstanding Provider. Our latest inspection was completed in July 2024 and before that in March 2022. Here you can view and download the Ofsted Reports:
Inspection judgement
Overall experiences and progress of service users:
OUTSTANDING
The quality of the individualised support provided is excellent. The significant influence and impact of this work is very evident in the positive outcomes experienced by children and families. Children and adults are supported effectively through very difficult challenges and helped to achieve positive outcomes. Children with complex needs show marked improvements in their behaviour and stability. Families report that they feel valued, very well supported, and cared for.
A particular strength of the agency is how the registered manager, who is the sole practitioner, builds trusting relationships with ‘harder-to-reach’ children and their families. She is a very experienced and skilled practitioner and uses a direct but very sensitive child-focused approach based on research and evidence-based practice. This approach is very effective in helping children to understand the impact of previous trauma, to find ways of overcoming this, and to go on to achieve positive outcomes.
Initial therapeutic assessments are comprehensive and provide the basis for the intended objectives and timescales for the individual plans of therapeutic work. Plans are clear and are always agreed with children and their families prior to the start of any sessions. The registered manager seeks and records the voices of children and families. The outcomes of each piece of work are evaluated, recorded, and understood by all involved.
Feedback from children, families and professionals is overwhelmingly positive. Many report how therapeutic interventions from the registered manager have prevented family breakdown and supported them effectively through very complex and challenging situations.
The registered manager regularly supports children and their families at education meetings, providing insight and expertise about the support adopted children may need to make educational progress. One professional reported: ‘I have seen lots of evidence of the prevention of disruptions because of the agency’s work.’
The registered manager is passionate and committed to improving outcomes for adopted children and their families. She places great importance on being involved in current research with universities and the Department for Education. The agency is recognised as a centre of excellence in the adoption sector. She provides training for professionals involved in adoption and has written and published books. These publications provide practical and helpful strategies for parents to help them understand the impact of previous trauma on their child and how best to support and parent them.
Ofsted, July 2024
Here you can view and download the Statement of Purpose for our organisation, our Customer Complaints Procedure, our Certificate of Registration with Ofsted our Safeguarding Policy and Joanna North’s CV:
“Our Adoption would have failed if we had not had the ongoing support of Joanna North.”
Comment from an Adoptive Parent
