(2) how many children in the age groups corresponding most closely to the age group (a) under 12 months, (b) one to four years, (c) five to nine years, (d) 10 to 14 years and (e) 15 to 18 years registered with Isle of Wight council were adopted in the last period for which figures are available.
Information on the number of children in each local authority in England who were considered for adoption is not collected centrally by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).
Information on the number of children in each local authority in England who were placed for adoption in (i) 2004-05 and (ii) 2005-06 has been placed in the House Library. The data are also available in table 4 of the Statistical Volume on Children Looked After By Local Authorities Year Ending 31 March 2006 on my Department's website at:
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/VOL/v000721/TablesfinalRENAMED.xls
The number of children looked after by the Isle of Wight local authority who were adopted in the year ending 31 March 2006, is shown in the following table.
Number Age at adoption All children Under 1 1 to 4 5 to 9 10 to 15 16 and over Children adopted in England 3,700 190 2,300 940 180 20 Children adopted in the Isle of Wight 10 * * * 0 0 1. Figures exclude children looked after under an agreed series of short-term placements. 2. Figures are derived from the SSDA903 return. 3. To maintain the confidentiality of each individual child, data at national level are rounded to the nearest 100 if they exceed 1,000 or to the nearest 10 otherwise. Data at local authority level are rounded to the nearest 5. Where the number was 5 or less (other than 0) this has been suppressed and replaced with an asterisk ‘*’.