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National Adoption Week highlights adoption journeys of all kinds
This National Adoption Week (Monday 21 to Sunday 27 October), we’re showcasing adoption journeys of all kinds, and the important people who are there along the way, as part of this year’s You Can Adopt campaign, The Journey. The campaign raises awareness of modern adoption and showcases the diversity of adoptive families today, showing that the journey to a family is not always a traditional one.
National Adoption Week 2024 – coming soon!
This year’s National Adoption Week (21 October to 27 October 2024) highlights adoption journeys of all kinds, and the people who have played a role – from social workers and birth families, to foster carers and grandparents.
The Journey: adoption
For the first time in recent years, there are now more children in need of adoption than those coming forward to adopt. The rewards of giving a child a loving, stable home are unparalleled, even when the journey shows that the path may not always be smooth. The campaign is supported by BBC’s ‘The Traitors’ contestant Miles Asteri, adoptive father of two, who described adoption as ‘the adventure of a lifetime’.
National adoption drive launches amid rise in number of children needing a forever home
With the cost of living hitting families, experts warn that prospective adopters may be holding back waiting for the ‘perfect time’ or circumstances. But for a child needing a permanent home, the perfect time is now. The campaign is supported by BBC’s ‘The Traitors’ contestant Miles Asteri, adoptive father of two, who described adoption as ‘the adventure of a lifetime’.
National Adoption Week
Celebrating the generations of adopted people, and the people who support them.
Finding adopters for children who wait the longest for a permanent home
Children with a disability wait nine months longer to be adopted from care than children without a disability
Now is the time to adopt
We want to highlight our children in care who can wait the longest to be adopted. Children with disabilities can wait the longest to be adopted, on average spending more than 450 days in care before their forever family is found. Children over the age of four wait on average nearly 250 days in care; […]