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<p>Information on the number of prospective adopters receiving approval was first
collected from all adoption agencies during the year ending 2013.</p><p>In 2013 and
2014 this data was collected by Ofsted and figures are published at the following
link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/childrens-social-care-statistics"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/childrens-social-care-statistics</a></p><p>Since
2014, the data has been collected as part of the Adoption Leadership Board (ALB) quarterly
adoption survey and figures are published at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/adoption-system-performance"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/adoption-system-performance</a></p><p>The
number of children who received an adoption decision maker (ADM) decision that the
child should be placed for adoption during each of the last five years is published
in table E4 of the “Children Looked After in England (including adoption and care
leavers)” Statistical First Release (SFR), published at the following link:</p><p><a
href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2014-to-2015"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2014-to-2015</a></p><br
/><p>Figures for the last five years are provided in table 2 below:</p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Table
2 – Number of ADM decisions during the year ending 31 March</em></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>3,910</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>4,830</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>5,690</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>6,520</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>6,170</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source:
SSDA903 data collection</em></p><br /><p>Ofsted publishes local authority level information
on the number of children in foster placements that are subject to concurrent planning.
The information is available via the following links:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fostering-in-england-1-april-2012-to-31-march-2013"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fostering-in-england-1-april-2012-to-31-march-2013</a></p><p><a
href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fostering-in-england-1-april-2013-to-31-march-2014"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fostering-in-england-1-april-2013-to-31-march-2014</a></p><p><a
href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fostering-in-england-1-april-2014-to-31-march-2015"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fostering-in-england-1-april-2014-to-31-march-2015</a></p><br
/><p>During 2014-15, we provided a grant of £199,520 for the British Association of
Adoption and Fostering in order to provide training to social workers. This grant
included training for social workers on fostering for adoption.</p><br /><p>We do
not collect information centrally on which local authorities have contracted out their
adoption functions to a third party.</p>
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