Adoption Experience

“...so they start taking over the routine of the child during those introductions. There’s a review half way through to see how things are going and at that point a decision is made as to when would be an appropriate time for the child to move in.”

“I think one of the most important things when placements are getting difficult is to access help early on because the placements that break down are often when people have come for help quite late on and they’re quite deep into crisis”

“The outcomes of children when they go into adoptive placements are generally good , they do better at school, they’re at less risk of things like teenage pregnancies and getting involved with drugs when they’re in adoptive placements…”

“...in their early childhood they may well have experienced neglect and trauma and therefore that will have affected their development, their ability to trust adults and their ability to make relationships. ”

“...it’s also important for children, a sense of their identity, particularly when they get to their teenage years, to have an understanding of their background and form a sense of identity”

“...most of the children awaiting adoption have not been able to live within their birth families for many different reasons, if it wasn’t safe, and have been removed often against the will of the birth parents and placed for adoption and so therefore ad”

“My understanding is that many of those children are over the age of 3 or 4 and in my personal experience, very few adopters are interested in children over 5.”

“There’s also a national adoption register that people can put their names on which can help to connect people up. ”