Prime Minister David Cameron pointed the way in his party conference speech when he spoke about the "scandal" of the small number of babies – 60 – adopted in the previous year and promised "a new focus on the 65,000 children in care". His ministers, incited by a fall in the number of adoptions from 3,200 to 3,040 in the past year, have sounded just as vociferous. Education Secretary Michael Gove, himself adopted, attacked "the politically correct attitudes and ridiculous bureaucracy that keep too many children waiting far too long". And children’s minister Tim Loughton said: "Local authorities should be in no doubt that we expect to see improvements in the coming months. We will not tolerate continued failure when that failure means a child’s future put at risk."
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