National Adoption Week

EDM number 2437 in 2007-08, proposed by Tim Loughton on 06/11/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Children and families, Children's social services and Voluntary organisations.

That this House supports National Adoption Week, which runs from 10th to 16th November 2008, organised by the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF); congratulates the BAAF on the excellent work it carries out to promote and support adoption in the United Kingdom; believes that adoption with a loving family provides vulnerable children who cannot live with their birth parents a much better chance of continuity and stability of care when all efforts to keep the child with his or her birth parents or extended family have been exhausted; is concerned about recent figures showing a decline in the number of children successfully adopted; and urges the Government and local authorities to do all they can to promote more families coming forward to offer adoptive placements.

This motion has been signed by a total of 58 MPs.