The Post Adoption Counselling Ofsted Dance of Misdirection
A Statutory Instrument 2005 underlining the 2013 Adoption Statutory Guidance fore-worded by Ed Timpson MP., places NO legal prohibitions on adults Adoptees seeking for instance private therapy for trauma inside Adoption. NONE at all . "Counselling" ( not therapy ) as core duties, are only mentioned in prescribed forms. Read the Statutes! .. One mention of therapeutic services for Adoptive children in another 2005 government document is the only time the Statutes veer from using counselling as a term and that is because some very disturbed children who are adopted, need specialized services . Ofsted have created an interpretative problem in their online Guidance about post adoption counselling and that is because counselling in its core duties is indeed statutorily prescribed as a number of tasks and needs to be "inspected" once counsellors and other Adoption support staff set up as "Agencies" Therapy though is never mentioned in Stat