Adoption
Link Maker provides adoption features for both local authorities and potential adopters, increasing placement choice for children awaiting adoption and creating a UK-wide pool of available adopters.
Placement commissioning
Link Maker’s commissioning features makes needs-led placements easier to find, and give the opportunity for all authorities to use a common, national platform, improving data regionally and nationally.
Placement providers
While Link Maker is used by nearly every local authority in the UK for adoptive matching, over one-third of authorities across England are preparing to pilot a new platform for commissioning, fostering and residential placements.
Latest news
Pace of children being taken into care accelerates
Young children not routinely told why they are in care, survey finds
IVF is ‘not a main factor’ in the fall of adoption numbers, says Adoption UK
Two thirds of children's social workers want to leave current job, study finds
