Grow your family through adoption with Adopt Coast to Coast

There are over 2,000 children in need of a loving, permanent home through adoption in England. Adopt Coast to Coast, the Regional Adoption Agency for the North East and North West, is calling for more people to come forward and consider adoption as a way to start or to grow their own families.

The agency is working hard to dispel the misconceptions about who is eligible to adopt and how long it takes to complete the application process. Nowadays prospective adopters can be approved and matched within 6-12 months – a far cry from the lengthy timescales often perceived.

Adopt Coast to Coast supports would-be adopters from a wide variety of backgrounds to find their forever family and encourages applications from all walks of life - including single people and couples, applicants from the LGBTQ+ community, those with biological children and those who have undertaken fertility treatment.

Families come in many different forms and Adopt Coast to Coast is keen to reassure the public that there is not a set tick-list of qualities they are looking for – in fact the only rules are that prospective adopters must be over 21 and have lived in the UK for a year.

Many adopters already have birth children, like adopter Jo: “We heard an advert on the local radio station about adoption. It probably wasn't the first time we had heard it, but it was the first time we really listened. It started a discussion between myself and my husband, and we couldn’t come up with one reason why we shouldn’t or couldn't do it. We knew our son would make the best big brother, but we had to make him our priority in our final decision. We had gone from a time where having more kids was not going to happen, to being in a position where it was more than