The government has published new performance tables for every local authority in England on 15 key indicators relating to children in care (also known as looked after children, LAC) and adoption, which rank their performance against each indicator.

They were released alongside other initiativesto coincide with the start of National Adoption Week, following up a commitment the Prime Minister made in his speech to the Conservative Party Conference in October: “Today I can announce this: a new focus on the 65,000 children in care. Do you know how many children there are in care under the age of one?  3,660. And how many children under the age of one were adopted in our country last year?  Sixty.