Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to commission a national adoption stocktake.

The government has no plans to undertake a national adoption stocktake. In March 2016 the government published Adoption: a vision for change - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adoption-a-vision-for-change - which set out the government’s plans to address challenges in the adoption system over the next 4 years. This included radically redesigning the whole adoption system – the structures, systems and workforce – to ensure we have the foundations in place to build lasting change.