Adoption
Commons · Question 66937 · Tabled 11 Jul 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 21 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Rachael Maskell
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of prospective adopters; and what steps her Department is taking to increase this.
Answer
Answered by Janet Daby, 21 Jul 2025
The government inherited a situation marked by a growing disparity between the number of children awaiting adoptive families and the number of approved adopters. In 2024/25, Adoption England launched a national recruitment campaign funded by the governmen...