You might expect the Head of a regional adoption agency to be proud of the work they and their team do, but for Kath Drescher, Head of Adopt South West, adoption has been her life.
You Can Adopt
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; […]
National Adoption Week 2022: identity
It’s National Adoption Week (17 to 23 October) and we are recognising the significance of identity for those children who are adopted as they mature into adulthood. Watch the brilliant new emotional short film.
‘A Life Less Ordinary’ national adoption campaign
Adopters are in greatest need for brother and sister groups, older children, those with additional needs and children from ethnic minority backgrounds.
Our new campaign highlights children who wait the longest to be adopted
Our new eye-opening campaign has shed a light onto how long some children in care can wait before becoming adopted.