The law requires that all adopted children must grow up knowing about their adoption and allows them at 18 years to have access to their original birth records. There is a move towards greater openness in adoption and prospective adopters will need to consider what degree of openness they can accept. We need a whole range of families to meet the varying needs of the children we place for adoption. Learning to live with a new family can mean that children will test you to the limit. Children placed at any age may be resentful, ungrateful, destructive, over-pleasing, seeking attention all the time and some may show sexualised behaviour.
Material considerations are far less important than affection, security and stability.
We are looking for people who can provide a child with a family for the whole of their childhood and beyond. You may be single, married, previously divorced, childless or already have children. You may be working or unemployed. We only normally accept applications for children from people living within the county boundary . However, we do occasionally take up applications from outside when they are for children whom we find more difficult to place.