National Adoption Week 2024

With the start of National Adoption Week (21 to 27 October) today, Cumbria Adoption joins the national ‘You Can Adopt’ campaign to increase understanding of modern adoption and show that ‘the journey to a family is not always a traditional one’.

Our campaign highlights adoption journeys of all kinds, and the people who have played a role – from social workers and birth families, to foster carers and grandparents. 

A new film, which you can watch below, has been created to mark the week featuring adoptive families onboard a train, reflecting on their journeys and the people who have been, and continue to be, part of it. 

The You Can Adopt campaign and film will show adopters that they are not alone by highlighting the ‘village’ that makes every journey unique - from social workers and foster carers to birth families and grandparents. 

The campaign comes as new adoption data shows there has been a 22 per cent increase in the number of children with a plan for adoption not yet matched with an adoptive family, alongside a fall in the number of adopters coming forward. 

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