A drop in the rate of children being adopted is partly caused by improvements in IVF, the head of the public body representing children in care has said. The success rates for fertility treatment are now nearly three in 10 (29%) for women under 35, almost three times higher than when the process was first developed in 1978. Anthony Douglas, the chief executive of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, told the Daily Telegraph the adoption process was too slow. “IVF used to be around 7% successful and now it’s around 30%,” he said. Douglas, who will step down from his role in March, said the wait for children to find their “forever home” needed to be cut.

Source: The Guardian November 03, 2018 10:05 UTC