In National Adoption Week, City MP Stephen Morgan is encouraging local people to consider adoption to help change a child’s life.
Adoption is a lifelong commitment, and one of the most amazing things you can do. It is about providing a permanent family for children in care who cannot, for whatever reason, return home.
Adopters take on all the rights and responsibilities for the child that birth parents had, offering a child stability, love and security within a family home, throughout their childhood and beyond.
The Portsmouth Adoption Service is a government organisation that recruits adopters from across Hampshire, within 50 miles of Portsmouth city. They hold regular information sessions twice per month. For anyone thinking of adopting a child or young person, the team try to make the process as quick, clear and seamless as possible.
Stephen Morgan, Member of Parliament for Portsmouth South, said:
“Last week it was a pleasure to welcome representatives of the city’s adoption team to the House of Commons, to thank them for all they do to help change children’s lives in our city.
Children need a loving, stable home. They need parents who will stick by them through the good times and the bad. They need support and love to help them overcome their troubled backgrounds, make sense of who they are and grow up to be safe and secure.
Adopting a child is a life-changing experience. It’s one of the most important decisions you could make, and there is support to help anyone who may feel are able to make it.
I would urge anyone considering adoption to get in touch with the team”.
For more information about how you can adopt visit www.adoption.portsmouth.gov.uk/
