Why are adoption numbers falling, when there are so many children in need? | Margaret Reynolds

More and more young people in England are growing up in the care system. We need to make it easier for people to adoptI adopted my daughter when she was six years old. She had been in the care of a local authority pretty much since birth. Now 18, she and I both worry about the current predicament for many children in the UK who grow up with a local authority as their corporate parent, a situation exacerbated by the pandemic as lockdown puts families under pressure. “How can we change thing