Adoption: North West

(asked on 20th January 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many adoptions there were in (a) the North West, (b) Lancashire and (c) Pendle constituency in each of the last three years.


Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 22nd January 2015

The information requested is shown in the table below. This data is also published in Table LAE1 of the ‘Children looked after including adoption’ statistical first release. [1]

Data for Pendle is not available as this data is not collected at parliamentary constituency level.

Number of looked after children adopted during the year ending 31 March1

Years ending 31 March 2012 to 2014

2012

2013

2014

North West region

590

650

770

Lancashire local authority

70

75

85

Source: SSDA903

1. Regional totals have been rounded to the nearest 10. Other numbers have been rounded to the nearest 5.

[1] www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption--2

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