Adoption: Yorkshire and the Humber

(asked on 11th July 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many babies under six weeks old were placed for adoption in Yorkshire and the Humber by local authority area in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 18th July 2019

The department collects data on children who are placed for adoption. However, the information requested is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. The breakdown requested and the following significant caveats are:

  • Data isn’t collected on the area where the child is finally placed for adoption.
  • Data isn’t collected from all routes of adoption, for example private adoptions.

The number of looked after children, nationally, who were adopted by age is published for the last 5 years in table E1 of the statistical release: Children Looked After in England (including Adoption) year ending 31 March 2018, which is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018.

Figures on the number of children who ceased care due to adoption in 2018 by local authority is published in the underlying data table ‘CEA2018’ from the same statistical release: Children Looked After in England (including Adoption) year ending 31 March 2018.

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