Councillors in Wigan have criticised the social work team at Wigan Council for the lack of adoptions for children despite the improvements being made by the team.
The council revealed that they had seen 13 children adopted in the last 12 months. The reason given for this was the backlog in the courts with six months being the average time it is taking for them to go through the legal system, the Children and Young People Scrutiny Committee was told.
Coun Fred Walker was unimpressed by this statistic and wanted answers from the team as to why more adoptions had not taken place. “13 children adopted in our borough over the last 12 months,” he queried. “It seems remarkably low. Read more: Number of people in hospital with Covid is rising, health boss warns “I cannot believe it could be that low.
I am just shocked at that. Can you tell me why it [the number of adoptions] is so pathetic?” The officer explaining the ‘The Child’s Journey through our Services’ report said that this number will significantly increase in the coming months as the courts make their way through the backlogs.
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