Adoptions fall despite more children taken into care

In September 2017 we reported on a fall in the number of looked after children being adopted in England. The story was based on the latest data on looked after children

Get the data

• Statistics: looked-after children
• XLS file: Children looked after in England including adoption: 2016 to 2017 - national level breakdown by age, gender
• XLS file: Children looked after in England including adoption: 2016 to 2017 - local authority breakdown

Visualisation

• Line chart: Adoptions of children from care 2013-2017
• Line chart: Children in care in England 2009-2017
• Grouped bar chart: Drop in adoptions of looked after children for 10 areas: % of children leaving care via adoption 2015 vs 2017

Documents

• Methodology document - Department for Education