Adoption

(asked on 31st January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the current number of adopters is in England; and how many children are awaiting adoption.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 5th February 2018

The department’s main source of information on adoption is the Children looked after in England including adoption statistical first release published here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-looked-after-children.

Table E4 of the national tables shows that there were 2,580 children waiting with a placement order who were not yet placed for adoption at 31 March 2017.

The Adoption Leadership Board (ALB) quarterly survey shows further information on adopters recruited by local authorities and voluntary adoption agencies in England. The reports are published here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/adoption-system-performance.

The latest quarterly data shows that there were 2,800 approved adoptive families waiting to be matched with children at 30 September 2016.


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