Written Question·Ministry of Justice·UIN 126676

Adoption and Special Guardianship Orders

Tabled: 13 April 2026
Answered: 21 April 2026

Question

Neil O'Brien

ConservativeHarborough, Oadby and Wigston

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children aged (a) under one years old, (b) aged between one and four years old and (c) aged five years and older were (i) adopted and (ii) given a Special guardianship order in each year since 1996.

Answer

Alex Davies-Jones
Data on the age of the children subject to adoption and Special Guardianship Orders is routinely published in Family Court Quarterly statistics and the relevant tables are attached.Data prior to 2011 is not readily available and to source it would incur d...

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