Adoption UK’s Adoption Barometer, which polled around 5,000 adoptive parents about their experiences, states that “some of the UK's most vulnerable children are being devastated by a string of missed opportunities to provide them with timely and adequate support”.
Some 70 per cent of parents with secondary school-age adopted children said their child risked gaining very few qualifications because of a lack of support at school.
A further 48 per cent of families with older children report severe challenges, such as being drawn into criminally exploitative behaviour, including child sexual exploitation and county lines activities.
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