It now takes six months to be approved for adoption in Rutland and Stamford as the government seeks to get more children into a new home.
Family Adoption Links serves 6 local authorities including Rutland, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Jane Thornton, who's an adoption and kinship advanced practitioner there, says a wide range of people can be considered as they seek to place children of different ages.
‘Yeah, we're always looking for more people and a lot of people think they're going to be excluded if they're not in a couple, if they're not the right age. But these days adoption is a lot more open. So we have a lot of single adopters. We have adopters from single sex partnerships. We have adopters that are a bit older, so maybe in their 40s. So some people think that might exclude them. And we have a number of children waiting for matches and we have more babies these days’.
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