number has dropped to just under 3000 children. adoption uk describes it as a tragedy. jeremy cooke reports. shall we go to the park? yeah! adoption changes children s lives. just gets funnier, cuter. it rewrites their futures. 0ur role is really important in getting those children a forever family. but adoption numbers have fallen dramatically. we need to be doing much more| to find homes for these children. when adoption goes well, it can look like this. sibling groups can be among the growing number of kids classed as hard to place. but kara and gordon were up for it. i think both of us felt a bond with them and they were our children. that s me there and that s lucas, and that s daddy. and that s fay in the pushchair. the kids arrived eight years ago. they know their history. there are no secrets. it s when you have a family and sometimes you get taken away