Alma Economics assessed the potential benefits and costs of consolidating individual adoption agencies and creating a centralised London Regional Adoption Agency (LRAA).

In particular, our team was tasked with estimating the cost of providing adoption services in London, benchmarking the performance of the proposed members of the LRAA, and using this information to estimate the potential savings of transitioning to the LRAA.

Given the lack of high-quality information on adoption costs, we also gathered evidence using a set of surveys sent to all London councils. We then developed estimates regarding the cost-of-service provision and the potential impact of different centralisation scenarios.