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3rd November 2018
02:55pm GMT

"IVF used to be around 7 percent successful and now it's around 30 percent. Adoption is competing with lots of other ways of having children," he said.
Despite the fall in adoption rates, the number of children being put into care in England is still rising.
A spokesperson for the Department of Education told the BBC that adoptions numbers had risen since 2011, but dropped again in 2016 and 2017.
They said:
"Every child deserves to have a loving, stable home that's right for them, and thousands of families have had their lives transformed by adoption.
"We have invested £90m in the Adoption Support Fund and we are setting up Regional Adoption Agencies to further improve the time it takes for the child to go to live with their new family."
The expected adoption wait time in Ireland is thought to be similar to that in England.