Question reference: S6W-26491
- Asked by: Fulton MacGregor, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 26 March 2024
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Current status: Answered by Natalie Don on 23 April 2024
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how it collects data across all local authorities on the rate of adoption breakdown.
Answer
As part of Keeping The Promise by 2030, the Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that all adoptees and adoptive families can access the support they need, when and where they need it throughout life.
Furthermore, under the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007, local authorities have a duty to assess someone’s needs for adoption support services and then provide that support.
The Care Inspectorate collects data from local authority adoption services as well as voluntary adoption agencies in their annual returns, which includes data on the rate of adoption breakdown. This information is published in the Care Inspectorate’s annual Fostering and Adoption statistical bulletin. The latest bulletin was published in August 2023 careinspectorate.com/images/documents/7251/Fostering and adoption stats report 2022-23.pdf