The Prime Minister will say that the Government will ‘tear down barriers’ that prevent prospective adoptive parents from giving a home to children who need one.
Currently the average time between a child moving into care and being adopted is one year and nine months, a process which is considered too long by policymakers and adoption charities.
It also takes twice as long for a black child to find a home than a white child.
Ahead of the Adoption Action Plan to be published next week, the key changes announced are:
local authorities will be required by law to reduce delays for all adoption cases, with the case for matching the ethnicity of the child to that of prospective adopters coming second to the need to find suitable adoptive parents quickly;
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