The latest statistics on fostering and adoption intermediary services.

The key points from the latest release are:

• 73 new supervised private fostering arrangements began during the year, compared to 60 in the previous year.
• At 1 October 2008, there were 101 registered providers of fostering services operating in Wales and these services provided a total of 2,885 settings for foster care.
• In 2007-08, local authorities dealt with 293 requests for adoption intermediary services from people adopted before 30 November 1975, and there were 366 cases open at 31 March 2008.

Further information is available on the Statistics for Wales website.