Children need the long-term security that family life can offer.
Adoption is a way of providing permanent families for children, who
cannot, for whatever reason, be brought up by their own
parents.
There are considerable numbers of children waiting to be
adopted. Nationally from April 2006-2007 there were 3,300 children
adopted from public care with the average age of each child being
adopted was 4 years 2 months.
On average Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council will place
approximately 20 children for adoption each year as we are a
relatively small borough.
Bringing up a child can be mutually rewarding and great fun as
well as hard work and a big responsibility. This is especially so
when you choose to bring up a child who was not born to you. But
whatever the challenges, adoptive parents have the opportunity to
change a child's life and to provide a better future through the
security and stability of a permanent loving home.