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Adoption leaders move to stem drop in placement orders

The body set up to oversee the adoption system has issued guidance in an effort to halt a sharp slump in the number of court orders being made for children to be adopted.

The "myth-buster" guidance, published by the Adoption Leadership Board, is intended to provide local authorities with clarification about recent court judgments on adoption and what that means for social work practice.

Last week, CYP Now reported that between April and June this year a total of 760 placement orders were granted, compared with 1,550 orders being made between July and September 2013.

The fall is being blamed on an appeal court ruling made last September by Sir James Munby in the case of Re B-S in which he criticised the "sloppy practice" of social workers and said that local authorities must provide evidence that all alternatives to adoption had been considered before bringing a case to court.

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