This is despite latest figures from the Department for Education showing that the number of children successfully adopted in the year to 31 March 2020 dropped by four per cent compared with the previous year while overall adoption figures dropped by a third between 2015 and 2020.
Speaking to the the House of Lords Select Committee on the Children and Families Act 2014 as part of their examination of “critical issues in the English adoption system”, Elaine Farmer, professor of child and families studies at the University of Bristol said: “I gather that practitioners say they are not recruiting suitable adopters for the children that are available at the moment but when you talk to approved adopters, those that are single, black or older people say they are not being selected and children are not being placed with them.”
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