| To coincide with Barnardo’s Fostering and Adoption week, the charity highlighted the following issues: a white child is 3 times more likely to be adopted than a black child; the proportion of children adopted drops from 1 in 3 when a child is under 4 to 1 in 15 when that child turns 5; 40% of children waiting for a new family have some sort of special need. |
| Source: Barnardos 21 January 2013 |
