The Conservative government has wasted no time in unveiling reforms of the adoption system that it hopes will increase the number of children adopted.
The Education and Adoption Bill, published last week, contains provisions that will allow the government to force councils to merge or outsource their adoption services into regional agencies.
The government has said authorities will be given two years to forge new regional arrangements themselves, or be forced to do so if they fail to act.
It is hoped the creation of "regional adoption agencies" will give councils a greater pool of approved adopters to match children with, as well as making it easier to provide support services, and will allow better targeting in the recruitment of adopters for specific groups of children.
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