Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the time taken to place children in need of adoption with a family under adoption scorecards.
The Adoption Scorecards show the three year average figures on adoption timeliness and are published here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/adoption-scorecards.
The latest figures show the average time between a child entering care and moving in with their adoptive family, for children who have been adopted between 1 April 2013 and 31 March 2016.
The department’s main source of information on adoption timeliness is the Children looked after in England including adoption statistical first release published here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-looked-after-children and Table E2 of the national tables found in the link, shows annual figures on adoption timeliness.