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The adoption process - eligibility, assessment, adoption agencies, adoption court orders, overseas adoptions and the rights of birth parents.
Statistics on looked-after children at both national and local authority levels for the financial year 2016 to 2017.
Information on looked-after children at both national and local authority levels for the financial year 2015 to 2016.
Overall numbers of looked after children collected from all local authorities, including adoption and care leavers.
Information on looked-after children at both national and local authority levels for the financial year ending 31 March 2021.
Numbers of children who started and stopped being looked after by local authorities, including adoption and care leavers.
How local authorities should collect and submit data for the annual children looked after return (also known as SSDA903).
Information on looked-after children at both national and local authority levels for the financial year ending 31 March 2020.
Statistics on children under local authority care at national and local authority level.
Information on looked-after children at both national and local authority levels for the financial year ending 31 March 2019.
Support and benefits you can get if you're looking after someone else's child, court orders - kinship care, private fostering, friends and family care
Local authorities and regional adoption agencies can apply for therapeutic funding for eligible adoptive, special guardianship order and child arrangement order families.
Foster carers look after children when their parents are not able to - becoming a foster carer, money and support available, fostering agencies, foster parents
Guide for local authorities submitting the children looked after data return for the year 2021 to 2022.
Adoption and children's care services provided by every local authority in England between 2012 and 2014.
Information on looked-after children at both national and local authority levels for the financial year ending 31 March 2018.
How we produce statistics on looked-after children.
Statistics on looked-after children at both national and local authority levels for the financial year 2015 to 2016.
A range of outcome measures at national and local authority level for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities in England.
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