Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to commission a review of adoption and fostering policy.

Since 2010 we have taken significant steps to review and reform the way that fostering and adoption services are delivered.

In 2016 ‘Adoption: a vision for change’ was published which set out the government’s plans to address challenges in the adoption system over the following four years.

In July 2018 we published ‘Fostering better outcomes’ which set out the government commitments to improve the fostering system, in response to the Education Select Committee report into fostering and ‘Foster care in England’, an independent review published in January 2018.

We are committed to delivering the commitments set out in these reports, in order to help us to drive improvements across children’s social care.