This week is National Adoption Week 2016 and adoption charity Coram is calling for more to be done to give in-care children a stable home.
The latest Government figures show that the number of cared for children in England has risen each year from 2008.
Despite this, the number of children being adopted from care in the last year has fallen 12 per cent.
In even the one to four age group, which makes up 72 per cent of all adopted children, there were 17 per cent fewer adoptions.
The charity’s chairman Dr Carol Homden, said, she was ‘concerned’ by the rates, ‘particularly within in the younger age group’.
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