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Children who wait less than 20 months ( pre 2011-14) or 18 months between entering care and moving in with their adoptive family (%) (913) 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 and 213 days respectively) and will raise incrementally over the next four years until they reflect the levels set out in statutory guidance.
- Help text
- Discontinued, latest available data 2011/12-2013/14.
This indicator includes all children adopted in the period 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2011 that were placed for adoption immediately prior their adoption and all children with a current adoption plan at 31 March 2011 (excluding those where the decision to adopt has been reversed). When adoption is the preferred option for permanence this is referred to as the adoption plan.
2. Time is calculated between a child starting to be looked after and their placement for adoption, i.e. the date they move in with their adoptive family. Only children with valid data are included. Children are flagged if they waited less than 20 months (pre 2011-14) or 18th (from 2011-14) between starting to be looked after and being placed for adoption or had not yet been looked after for 18/20 months at 31 March.
3. The numerator is therefore all adopted children who were placed for adoption first who were placed less than 18/20 months after becoming looked after and all children looked after at 31 March with a current adoption decision who were placed less than 18/20 months after becoming looked after or who had not yet been looked after for 18/20 months at 31 March.
4. The denominator is therefore all adopted children who were placed for adoption first and all looked after at 31 March with a current adoption decision.
- Modified
- 08 Sep 2023
- Data last updated
- 23 Jun 2015
- Short label
- Children who wait less than 21 months between entering care and moving in with their adoptive family (%)
- Status
- Discontinu
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- a high value is good
- Measure
- Per cent
- Dataset
- Children who wait less than 21 months between entering care and moving in with their adoptive family
- Collection
- Adoption scorecard
- Source
- Department for Education
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