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Average time between a child entering care and moving in with its adoptive family, for children who have been adopted (days) (911) Metric type
- Description
- The Department for Education published new adoption scorecards which formed part of a new approach to address delays in the adoption system, as set out in An Action Plan for Adoption: Tackling Delay (published in March). As part of this, the Department set performance thresholds for the first and second indicators in the scorecard which make clear the minimum expectations for timeliness in the adoption system. Performance thresholds have been set from this year (783 days) and will raise incrementally over the next four years until they reflect the levels set out in statutory guidance.
- Help text
- This indicator (A10) is for all the children that have been adopted during the three-year period ending 31 March, the average length of time in days between a child entering care and moving in with their adoptive family, i.e. being placed for adoption. The indicator is adjusted for foster carer adoptions, in that if a child was adopted by their foster carer, the time considered is stopped at the date the child moved in with the foster family.
A mean average is calculated of the time (in days) between a child entering care and moving in with its adoptive family (i.e. being placed for adoption or if adopted by a foster carer, until they had moved in with the foster carer, for all children that were adopted. Children who were not placed for adoption prior to the adoption order are excluded.
These scorecards are based on the data submitted and signed-off by local authorities at the time of the data collection. Figures are rounded to the nearest day.
- Modified
- 08 Sep 2023
- Data last updated
- 12 Aug 2021
- Short label
- Average time between a child entering care and moving in with its adoptive family, for adopted children (days)
- Status
- Discontinu
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- a low value is good
- Measure
- Days
- Dataset
- Time between a child entering care and moving in with its adoptive family, for children who have been adopted
- Collection
- Adoption scorecard
- Source
- Department for Education
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