Please provide:
* A month-to-month breakdown of the number of successful adoptions that have happened through your council starting from January 2018- April 2021? By successful adoptions, I mean prospective adoptive parent(s) becoming the legal guardian of a child.
A disclosure of this information identifying the numbers in the exact month when children were adopted could potentially identify the children involved. This would be a disclosure of their personal data and a breach of the first data protection principle of the General Data Protection Regulation. This information is therefore exempt from disclosure pursuant to s.40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
By way of advice and assistance, we can confirm that the overall total during the time period requested was 118
* Could you also provide an ethnic breakdown of the successfully adopted children, by month, starting from January 2018- April 2021?
Please refer to our response above.
By way of advice and assistance, we can confirm that the majority during the time period were White British.