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The Department for Education and Skills has confirmed changes are needed to the failing adoption register, writes Derren Hayes.

Its admission comes as the register, run by Jewish adoption agency Norwood, announced it has matched just 75 children with adopted families since it fully began operating two years ago. With funding of more than £1.25 million during that period, each match has cost £16,000.

Despite this, a DfES spokesperson said there are no plans to stop the service and “we are clear the register is right”, but admitted a review of how it was working had been carried out and shown that “we need to make it work better”.

The DfES spokesperson would not comment on what the changes might be, but said it was always looking to improve services.