Figures released by the Department for Children, Schools and Familieslast week showed in the year ending 31 March 2003 290 mixed-racechildren were adopted, making up eight per cent of all childrenadopted.
But by year ending 31 March 2006 the figure has risen to 370, 10 percent of children adopted.
The figures also show 95 looked-after children died in 2005/06, downfrom the previous year with most dying from diseases of the nervoussystem.
- www.dfes.gov.uk.
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