Adoption allows children who cannot live with their birth families to be brought up in a loving and secure family environment. Adoption is rightly about focusing on the needs of children but it is recognised that it also meets important needs for adults who wish to become parents to a child through adoption. The children that we place come from very varied backgrounds and have had many different kinds of family experiences so we need to recruit adopters from all walks of life who have a range of skills and strengths.

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What  adoption is?
Adoption meets the needs of children who cannot stay with their birth parents.  Adoption provides children with a family who will support them throughout the rest of their lives.