ISSUED CERTIFICATION DECLARING A CHILD LEGALLY AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION (CY 2009-2017)

Type of Placement Year Issued CDCLAA
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Grand Total
REGULAR* 41 524 412 405 569 468 435 524 415 3793
INDEPENDENT PLACEMENT** 17 225 281 359 372 361 222 264 303 2404
FOSTER-ADOPT*** 7 30 13 23 33 33 30 33 34 236
Total 65 779 706 787 974 862 687 821 752 6433

Note:

*Child/ren under the care of Government and Non-Government Residential Care Facilities or Agencies.

**Child/ren who were directly placed by their biological parent/s to the care of an individual or family other than their relatives without the intervention of the authorities during the time of entrustment.

***Child/ren placed under foster care whose foster parents later on, signified interest to adopt the child and applied for adoption

CHILDREN PLACED-OUT FOR DOMESTIC ADOPTION

Type of Placement Year Issued PAPA/CA*
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Grand Total
Regular 48 43 51 71 37 98 106 85 539
Independent Placement 13 20 24 52 151 323 220 235 1039
Foster-Adopt 4 18 16 24 45 64 32 37 240
Grand Total 65 81 91 147 233 485 358 357 1818

Note:

The conduct of matching conference was decentralized to the Field Offices effective May 2015;

The CPPD, in the Central Office, was returned to PSB from the (then) Special Operations Office in November 2015.

NUMBER OF LOCAL ADOPTIVE PARENTS DEVELOPED (CY 2010-2017)

TYPE OF APPLICATION 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Grand Total
Regular 66 66 52 69 50 80 116 116 615
Independent Placement 21 26 24 65 157 216 224 219 952
Foster-Adopt 3 22 16 25 51 55 56 52 280
TOTAL 90 114 92 159 258 351 396 387 1847

 

Inter-Country Adoption*

 

CHILDREN CLEARED FOR INTER-COUNTRY ADOPTION ( CY 2009-1ST Semester 2017)

 

  2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 TOTAL
Regular 364 287 283 311 340 289 198 276 81 2429
Relative 51 91 88 73 76 85 71 43 15 593
SNC/SHF 56 105 89 77 102 107 64 113 47 760
IP 11 24 20 27 25 21 24 8 2 162
TOTAL 482 507 480 488 543 502 357 440 145 3944
 

CHILDREN MATCHED FOR INTER-COUNTRY ADOPTION (CY 2009-1ST Semester 2017)**

  2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 TOTAL
Regular 284 259 260 250 327 300 187 222 67 2156
Relative 86 75 66 44 65 66 33 43 10 488
SNC/SHF 106 109 93 85 96 100 113 89 61 852
IP 16 19 14 21 31 22 19 17 5 164
TOTAL 492 462 433 400 519 488 352 371 143 3660

*Source: Intercountry Adoption Board (ICAB)

**Data was based on the total number of children matched for inter-country adoption, regardless of the year they were cleared for inter-country adoption.