Children and young people

Raising a child who has experienced a difficult start in life can be hard work, full of challenges and sometimes disappointing but there can also be great rewards and satisfaction.

• Adopters are given help and guidance from the adoption team to settle the child into their family.
• Adopters may need assistance from professionals in education and health to help both the child and themselves.
• Underlying problems may resurface at times but most children make good progress in their adoptive families.
• All adopted children need to have information about their birth families and some will have continuing contact with their birth family or previous carers, often through an annual exchange of letters.
• Talking about an adopted child’s past, including their birth family, with openness, honesty and sensitivity will help them thrive and flourish.

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