Fostering and Adoption Intermediary Services, Year Ending 31 March 2009

The statistics on fostering and adoption intermediary services include data for Wales for the period up to the end of March 2009. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 30 October 2008.

The key points from the latest release are:

• 85 new supervised private fostering arrangements began during the year, compared to 73 in the previous year.
• There were 101 registered providers of fostering services operating in Wales and these services provided a total of 2,900 settings for foster care.
• In 2008-09, local authorities dealt with 264 priority requests for adoption intermediary services from people adopted before 30 November 1975, and there were 390 cases open at 31 March 2009.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 6186
E-mail: stats.pss@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

October 2010 (provisional - to be confirmed on the 'Due Out Soon' page)