➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
United Kingdom: My child was nearly adopted – here’s why adoption targets are wrong (Opinion)
Community Care – November 28, 2016
Last week the Transparency Project, an organisation which seeks to promote the transparency of proceedings within the family courts, published findings from a Freedom of Information request into adoption targets. It found: “Significant numbers of councils in England are setting local numerical targets for how many children (or what percentage of their care population) should be adopted from care”.
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2016/11/28/my-child-was-nearly-adopted-and-here-is-why-adoption-targets-scary/