An analysis of the Agency for Social Assistance (ASA) about the future of the children after their stay in foster families shows that more and more of them are returning to their own families and relatives or being adopted. The analysis covers the period January, 2013 – June, 2015.

As visible from the table below, statistics show that the number of the children who are adopted or return to their own families and relatives is increasing markedly. 

According to an analysis of the Agency for Social Assistance, the number of children who have returned to their biological mom and dad in the first half of 2015 is 106. 326 children have been adopted.

Around June 2015, the total number of children placed in foster care is 2142. There is a clear tendency toward an increase in the number of children placed in foster families, and especially of the children with disabilities - at the end of 2013, they were 79, while, in the middle of 2015, they are 139 - 59% more.

Most of the children living in foster families are in the following regions: Shumen, Montana, Pleven, Varna, Veliko Tarnovo and Gabrovo. Much fewer children are placed in foster care in the regions of Burgas, Kardzhali, Silistra, Sofia and Yambol.