Annual Adoption Lecture 2025

Children's Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE) is delighted to launch their Annual Adoption Lecture 2025 with guest speaker will be Dr Tam Cane from the University of Sussex. Dr Cane will present her research on the AFDiT framework - a framework intended to ensure positive identity outcomes for all minoritised ethnic children moving into transracial adoption.

Dr Cane founded the AFDiT framework, which she later co-developed with adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents with experience of transracial adoption. The AFDiT framework was launched in May 2024 with the aim to improve social work practice in transracial adoption and enhance long-term identity outcomes for transracially adopted children. This framework is now implemented across adoption services in England and embedded within children’s adoption permanency records, including the CoramBAAF Child Permanency Records and other bespoke documents recording children’s permanency information.

This event is organised by the CASCADE team. If you have any questions, please email the team.