The Department for Education’s annual ‘Children looked after in England, including adoption’ also reveals a 15 per cent increase on the number of children adopted in the same period a year earlier.
While the children and families minister Edward Timpson said the rise in the number of adoptions is encouraging, he argued that too many children are ‘still waiting too long for stable, loving homes’ and that more needs to be done to recruit adoptive parents.
Mr Timpson went on to say that he hoped to see results delivered from the Adoption Reform Grant, launched in January to encourage local authorities to find more prospective adoptive parents, and the new Adoption Support Fund to help adopters to access therapeutic support for their children.
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