As revealed by CYP Now last week, the number of court orders granted so that children can be adopted – known as placement orders – have more than halved in just nine months, a situation blamed on local authorities misinterpreting a legal judgment from last year.
However, due to successful recruitment campaigns – and a major push by government to speed up the adoption process – there are currently thousands of parents who have been approved as adopters and are waiting to be matched to a child.
Senior figures within the adoption sector have told CYP Now that the fall in placement orders has started to filter through, reducing the number of children waiting to be matched.
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