Who are the children needing adoption?

Unfortunately there are some children who have experienced abuse or neglect in their birth family, so it is not safe for them to remain living with them. What ever the reason children come into care they all need a loving and stable home where they can grow and thrive. We need adoptive parents for:

• Children aged four years old and older.
  
  
• More than one child so brothers and sisters can stay together.
  
  
• Children with a physical or learning disability.
  
  
• Children with emotional and behavioural difficulties.
  
  
• Babies and children of African and African Caribbean heritage.
  
  
• Babies and children of mixed cultural heritage.

View more details of children for whom we are seeking a new forever family

Meeting a child's cultural needs

As North London is a culturally diverse and densely populated area we need people from all backgrounds who could consider adoption. Research has shown that most children needing an adoptive home, thrive and blossom when they are placed with a parent, or parents, whom reflect their own background and heritage as closely as possible.

There are many white children waiting for a new home. There are very few white babies waiting for adoption but many children aged between four and ten years old need a forever family. These children come from different cultural backgrounds - English, Irish, and from other parts of Europe and would benefit from an adoptive home which has links with their heritage.

To find homes for black children, all agencies in the North London Adoption Consortium seek to recruit Black adults who can offer positive role models and where a child will not be visibly different. These children need people who can support a child based on their own experience of race and racism, and who will help to preserve and promote a child's heritage and self esteem within a cultural context.

(The North London Adoption Consortium works within the 2002 Adoption Act and the National Minimum Standards.
Standard 2: "Children are matched with adopters who best meet their assesed needs, if possible a family which: reflects their ethnic origin, cultural background, religion and background")