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Adoption

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) approved families looking to adopt and (b) children ready for adoption there were in each of the last 30 years.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
20 Jan 2025
Target answer date
22 Jan 2025
Answer
18 Feb 2025 · 29 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 20 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) approved families looking to adopt and (b) children ready for adoption there were in each of the last 30 years.

  2. 22 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    The department does not hold information centrally on the number of approved families that are looking to adopt.The number of children looked after for whom the local authority has made the decision that they should be placed for adoption is published in ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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