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Subject: hits 15-year high gen. Adoption rate rises by 10 per cent in a YEAR as court orders placing children with new families hits 15-year highCourt orders approving adoption of a child up by 500 in 12 months
Government has pledged to speed up placing children with new families
There are 67,000 children in homes or in foster care in Britain The number of children successfully adopted rose by 10 per cent last year to the highest level since 2005.
Court orders approving the adoption of a child totalled 5,206 in 2012, up by nearly 500 in just 12 months, official figures published yesterday showed.
It is the biggest annual increase in adoptions for 15 years. The number of children under the age of one adopted rose by 50 per cent, from 76 to 113.
The figures will be a boost for Education Secretary Michael Gove, who has pledged to ‘radically’ speed up the time taken to place children with a new family.
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