Adoption Debate

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Adoption

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Business: Advice Services
Tuesday 8th December 2015

(8 years, 5 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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This is an area that we have great concern about and we are trying to increase our data on it from local authorities. I will be happy to write to the noble Lord in much more detail.

Lord Hylton Portrait Lord Hylton (CB)
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My Lords, we can all agree that the most careful checks need to be made before a child is placed for adoption. However, there have been long delays in many cases. What are the Government doing to ensure that those delays are kept to the absolute minimum?

Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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The Children and Families Act was very much about speeding up the process. The number of placements made within a year has almost doubled and the time children wait for adoption has fallen by several months. I have already alluded to the issues we have in the immediate short term and the possible plans for legislative change to remedy the situation.

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