Sue Robb of 4Children talks to Julie Laughton and Alison Britton from the Department for Education about the role of childminders in delivering the 30 hours free entitlement.
New figures from the Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board have shown that more than twice as many children are waiting to be adopted as there are families willing to adopt.
There are currently 4,140 youngsters across England where a decision has been made by authorities that they should be adopted. Comparatively, there are about 1,700 families who are approved to adopt and waiting to be matched with children. There are 2,760 children where a placement order has been made for adoption but they have not yet been placed.
The data also reveals that older children, those with disabilities and those from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds and sibling groups are more likely to struggle to find adoptive families.
Published to mark the start of National Adoption Week, the figures indicate that 28 per cent of those waiting to be adopted are older than five and 20 per cent are from a BAME background while four per cent have a disability.
Sue Armstrong Brown, chief executive of Adoption UK, said: “Adopted children are among the most complex and vulnerable in society as they have often suffered serious neglect or abuse in their early lives. But adoption can have a transformative effect on these children and the testimony of adoptive parents is proof that you can successfully parent children who are deemed harder to place, if the right support is in place.”
Sue Robb of 4Children talks to Julie Laughton and Alison Britton from the Department for Education about the role of childminders in delivering the 30 hours free entitlement.
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