Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what figures her Department holds on the break-down rate of (a) adoption arrangements, (b) fostering arrangements and (c) family-based arrangements in each year since 2010.

Information on the break-down rate of adoption arrangements, fostering arrangements and family arrangements since 2010, is not held by the Department for Education.

Information on the previous permanence placement of children entering care was collected in the SSDA903 data collection for the first time in the year ending 31 March 2014. Figures for 2013-14 are published in Table C1 here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption--2

The research report ‘Beyond the Adoption Order: challenges, interventions and adoption disruption’ was published last year at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beyond-the-adoption-order-challenges-intervention-disruption

The study estimated that, over a 12-year period, the post order national disruption rate was 3.2%.