Total Adoptions from Care by constituent UK Country and Overall.

Freedom of information requests have confirmed that these numbers do not include intercountry adoptions into the UK for England, Scotland and Wales (awaiting NI response).

Numbers of intercountry adoptions into the UK since 2000.

Breakdown of individual constituent country totals are available from 2000 for Scotland, 2009 for England and 2013 for Wales. Numbers for NI have yet to be provided

There is some variance in the numbers between the individual countries reporting obtained under Freedom of Information Requests and that compiled by the HCCH as the total for the UK but differences are not significant.

Care Leavers per official definitions in full-time Higher Education in England and Scotland in the last 5 years. These do not include adoptees but give a comparison in terms of total number of individuals accessing programmes.

Information for Wales and NI was not available

Differing data is available from each of the four nations. However it is clear that on average domestic adoption happens before a child starts reception.

Rates are slightly higher at over 4 in Northern Ireland.

There is no data for the age of intercountry adoptees, although it is suspected the age pattern is similar. Legally most of these children had to remain in care for a significant period in their home country before being available for intercountry adoption thus making the age roughly similar to domestic.

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