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<p>Decisions on adoption in England are made by local authorities based on children’s
individual needs.</p><p>In 2016 the government published ‘Adoption – A vision for
change’ which set out how we intend to radically redesign the whole adoption system
in England – the structures, systems and workforce – to ensure we have the foundations
in place to build lasting change.</p><p>We have enabled more children to be placed
in stable homes earlier by requiring local authorities to consider a fostering for
adoption placement wherever possible. We funded a significant growth in the use of
innovative adopter-led matching through National Exchange Days and Adoption Activity
Days. We have also introduced a new, quicker two-stage process for approving adopters.</p><p>The
result has been that the average time taken from entering care to a child being placed
with their adopted family has decreased since 2012-13 by 7 months to 14 months in
2017-18. The children waiting in care with a placement order but not yet placed with
adopters has dropped from 5,300 reported at 31 March 2013 to 2,760 at the end of 2017-18.[1]</p><p>We
are driving further improvements in local adoption recruitment, matching and support
through the introduction of Regional Adoption Agencies.</p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018</a>.</p>
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