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Adoption scorecards

Data showing the amount of time local authorities take to place children in need of adoption with a family.

Updates to this page

From:
Department for Education
Published:
15 November 2012
Last updated:
15 July 2021
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  1. Added Adoption scorecards underlying data year ending March 2020 and Adoption Scorecards year ending March 2020: Methodology and guidance document.

  2. Added 'Adoption scorecards dashboard: 2019' data.

  3. Added scorecards and underlying data, and methodology and guidance documents for year ending March 2019.

  4. Added scorecards and underlying data, and methodology and guidance documents for year ending March 2018.

  5. Release date added for adoption scorecards for the year ending March 2018.

  6. Added scorecards and underlying data, and methodology and guidance documents for year ending March 2017.

  7. Added scorecards and underlying data, and methodology and guidance documents for year ending March 2016.

  8. Added scorecards and underlying data, and methodology and guidance documents for year ending March 2015.

  9. Updated 'Adoption scorecards: December 2014' and 'Adoption scorecards: underlying data - December 2014' documents to correct the average length of care proceedings.

  10. A correction has been made to the figures for the percentage of adoptive families matched to a child who waited at least 3 months from approval to being matched. Note 8 of the guidance has been updated.

  11. Added December 2014 data and methodology and guidance document.

  12. Added adoption scorecards and underlying data documents for 2014.

  13. First published.

Applies to England

Documents

Adoption scorecards: year ending March 2020 - methodology and guidance

PDF, 184 KB, 18 pages

Adoption scorecards underlying data: year ending March 2020

ODS, 588 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Adoption scorecards underlying data: year ending March 2020

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 754 KB

Adoption scorecards dashboard: 2019

https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiZWJmZTdmNjctZmRiZS00NjRmLTg5YmMtNWFiZmZmZmQ4MDllIiwidCI6ImZhZDI3N2M5LWM2MGEtNGRhMS1iNWYzLWIzYjhiMzRhODJmOSIsImMiOjh9

Adoption scorecards: year ending March 2019 - methodology and guidance

Ref: DfE-00139-2020

PDF, 1.71 MB, 20 pages

Adoption scorecards underlying data: year ending March 2019

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 705 KB

Adoption scorecards: year ending March 2018 - methodology and guidance

Ref: DFE-00064-2019

PDF, 403 KB, 17 pages

Adoption scorecards and underlying data: year ending March 2018

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 853 KB

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Adoption scorecards: year ending March 2017 - methodology and guidance

Ref: DFE-00134-2018

PDF, 189 KB, 16 pages

Adoption scorecards and underlying data: year ending March 2017

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 834 KB

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Details

These scorecards allow local authorities and regional adoption agencies to monitor and compare their performance.

We introduced scorecards as part of a new approach to address delays in the adoption system. This approach was set out in ‘An action plan for adoption: tackling delay.’

More information about the scorecards and underlying data is available in the methodology and guidance documents.

Read about 2012 to 2016 data.

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