The report Barriers to Adoption 2012 was commissioned by adoption and fostering charity PACT ahead of National Adoption Week (5 – 11 November) to examine the misconceptions held about the process.
The survey was carried out in the wake of Government plans to speed up adoption and cut bureaucracy in the system.
There are more than 7,000 children on a placement order and waiting to be adopted in the UK, but adoption rates have fallen by 17 per cent in the last decade.
Views were sought from those at different stages of the process, including those who had considered adoption in the past, but had not pursued it, those who are going through it and parents who have successfully adopted children.
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