The proposal, contained in the government’s Action Plan for Adoption, is intended to "shine a light" on which local authorities are doing well on adoptions, and which need to improve.
It is part of a series of recommendations designed to strengthen local authority accountability on adoption and overhaul the assessment system for prospective adopters.
The new scorecards will be published in a matter of weeks and will highlight three key indicators.
The first will measure the average time it takes for a child identified for adoption to actually move in with their new family, the second will look at the proportion of children who wait longer for adoption than they should, and the third will measure the average time it takes to match a child to an adoptive family.
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