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Adoptions 'too slow'

Adoptions 'too slow'

Adoptees wait up to 20 months to be placed in a new home, new figures from local authorities suggest.


Children's Minister Tim Loughton said the figures were a "trigger for urgent, detailed discussions" to speed up the adoption process.

The Government has already proposed a number of changes to the adoption system which it says will accelerate the process. Mr Loughton denied to BBC Radio 4 that this was a box-ticking exercise. “This is absolutely not box-ticking. I’m not going to introduce targets, that can often have perverse consequences which previous governments found. What the adoption scorecards does is to give complete transparency of information."


Writing exclusively for PoliticsHome, Conservative MP Andrea Leadsom emphasised the importance of early years intervention in neglectful families.

"The stakes are incredibly high: a lack of loving attention in the first two years can damage someone for life," she said.

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