children their foreveryfamily and giving them much better life chances than they would a as he looked after child and a local authority care. put simply, they are looking for more parents who can give a home to a hard to place a child. tie: challenge for to find those families for those children who we know need adoption, who are probably waiting the longest. recruitment is one of our key priorities. we are looking for people who can come forward, who are resilient, and who can parent those children who have often experienced early adversity in young lives. early adversity means trauma, | and trauma leaves its mark. is that| good? these guys know all about | that. but for children like lucas, | being surrounded by a stable, loving family can help make it possible to process the difficult times that came before. they don t look after you, and then you do not get fed at all, you get dirty nappies all the time, and then you just have a bad house. and then you have got to live
and this became an instant family. do you feel like a family? yeah. 11096. you sure look like a family. yeah. i think both of us felt a bond with them and they were our children, you know. absolutely no question at all. they were our children. you know, we were a family. all of the kids know their history. no secrets, no surprises waiting to be sprung. that s me there, and that s lucas, and that s daddy, and that s - faye in a pushchair. so, you have a family, - a normal family, and sometimes you get taken away, because sometimes they re mean or something, and then you get taken to a different family. kind of great. kind of. it s hard to think that lucas. cut into circles. ..atjust three years old,
on so called hard to place children. and they re all stories of love and of hope. when adoption goes well, it can look like this. it looks like a family because it is. getting brothers and sisters, sibling groups adopted into the same family is one of the problems. but cara and gordon were up for it. we decided we wanted to adopt siblings. yes. so we knew that straight away. they d already agreed to adopt their two boys, lucas and dillon, who were three and one. then their social worker told him there was a twist. she just said, i think you need to sit down. and then she says, i need to let you know that there s a baby girl, as well. so before we d even got two, we went up to three. that baby girl was faye. and seven again, and seven again.