Latest government figures show that the number of court orders granted so that children can be adopted – known as placement orders – have more than halved in just nine months.
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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