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1. Where an agency adoptive placement breaks down prior to granting of an Adoption Order, a Disruption Meeting will be held to identify the reasons for the breakdown and to learn lessons from the events surrounding the breakdown.
2. The Disruption Meeting will be held no sooner than 28 days after and no later than 42 days after the placement breaking down, and will follow a set agenda.
3. An Independent Reviewing Office of a suitably qualified social worker from the voluntary agency After Adoption, will chair the meeting.  A minute taker will also attend.
4. The Disruption Meeting will be convened by the child’s social worker, who will invite the prospective adoptive parents, the link worker for the adopters, the current carers, the RBKC Adoption Team Manager and any other relevant people.  The team managers for both the child’s social worker and the adopters’ link worker must also attend. The child’s social worker will also ensure that the child’s views and feelings are given to the meeting in the most appropriate way.
5. The meeting will consider whether the agency remains satisfied that the child should be placed for adoption, the existing arrangements for contact and whether they should continue or be altered, the child’s needs, welfare and development and whether any changes need to be made to meet the child’s needs or assist the child’s development and, in consultation with the appropriate agencies, the arrangements for assessing and meeting the child’s health and educational needs.
6. The child’s social worker and the prospective adopters’ link worker should attend the Adoption and Permanency Panel to present a report from the Disruption Meeting. The Adoption and Permanency Panel should also receive copies of the Panel minutes recommending the adoption plan for the child, the prospective adopters’ approval and the matching, to enable learning points to be shared. 
   
   The child’s social worker should contact the Panel Administrator to book a date for the Adoption and Permanency Panel to consider the matter and copies of the relevant documents should be sent to the Panel Administrator 14 days before the Panel meeting.
7. Where an Introductions Plan is terminated before the adoptive placement takes place, the adoption link worker for a RBKC approved family, or the adoption social worker involved in the family finding in the case of an inter agency placement, will prepare a report for the Adoption and Permanency Panel.  The report must outline the reasons for the breakdown.
8. In all such cases, the Adoption and Permanency Panel may consider whether the plan for the child should be reviewed and/or whether the prospective adopters’ approval should be reviewed, and these issues may need to be further investigated and reports be presented to a subsequent meeting.

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