Image: A child (credit: One Adoption Agency)
‘One adoption agency’ has celebrated their one year anniversary of helping children be assigned to their correct adoption homes.
Michael Richards, 63, service manager for the agency said: “We have over 59 children that were trying to find new families. We successfully managed to allocate a good amount of children to new and safe homes.”
The agency is in partnership with councils across South Yorkshire including Rotherham Council and together they work to support children who are in need of finding a new home.
One adoption agency is made up of three regional adoption agencies: The North Humber adoption agency and One adoption in South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.
Each agency works closely with the local authority to ensure families and children are correctly placed in the right homes.
The government set a target that no child should wait no longer than four months after the court has decided that adoption should be the plan for them.
Mr Richards said: “The court makes a placement holder and from that point they want us to have a child move in with their adopted families within that time gap.”
Children in need have typically been away from their families or separated from their birthplace from an early age according to Mr Richards.
Due to their start in life, most children with adoption plans carry a certain level of well-being that will need to be met by the agency.
Mr Richards further added: “Some children may encounter difficulties in their past lives due to poor parenting and that is why the aim is to bring national attention to the need for adoptive parents to come forward for the children that we’re trying to find new families.”
When the children are adopted the agency highly recommends that they stay in good contact with their birth families with several benefits being highlighted by the agency. Some of these benefits are to build their self-esteem, help with their identity and to support these children.
Image from One Adoption Agency
Mr Richards said: “Each child has their own unique contact plan that we make for them which is in accordance to their situation, adopted children often share a strong curiosity over the identity of their parents and our job is to find them a new home not to stop them from knowing who they are and where they came from.”
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