For white young people, the figures have remained fairly stable, although there was a drop from 3,200 in 2005 to 3,100 in 2006. Numbers of mixed-race adoptions have increased, from 290 in 2002 to 370 in 2006. The figures for young people from other ethnic backgrounds have remained fairly stable.
Sue Cotton, adoption agency manager at children's charity NCH, says: "There have been slight delays in placing children for adoption and this is linked to changes in legislation in 2005 relating to placement orders."
She added that children from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds were proportionately over-represented, but that there was an increase in the number of families from BME backgrounds who were being recruited to adopt children.
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