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Guardian Datastore Content:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/sep/29/adoption-statistics-england
Adoption rates in the UK have fallen since 2009 due to the gruelling two year process potential parents have to suffer. Instead more and more people are opting to adopt outside of the UK.
Many people choose young children so that the adoptive process is an easy one for the child, but this means older children are over-looked and are often shoved between different foster-families.
Adding to their plight, many people are turned down before the process even begins, due to ethnicity, location and social habits, again leaving more children in care, without stability.
I chose this data as it is about Britain specifically. The message I am trying to convey through this data is how Britain's adoptive process means that many children are overlooked due to the time wasted and how it should afterall be in the best interest of the children who are in care.
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