This video shows the rapidly increasing numbers of children separated from parents and living in care, adoption or special guardianship. It updates this community care article https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2017/02/09/the-governments-adoption-drive-isnt-doing-what-it-set-out-to-do/ showing that higher rates of children leaving care to adoption and special guardianship were associated with increasing trends in care – the figures presented here are in Adoption trends.

My more recent research showed how higher adoption rates were a postcode lottery and the twenty local authorities with the biggest increases in adoption decisions had a 96% increase in the number of children adopted or on placement orders in five years. Across these authorities all aspects of children’s services activity had increased more than in the other 50 local authorities with child protection investigations changing most. Postcode lottery in child protection and adoption