Diagrama Adoption joins agencies across the country to encourage more people to consider adoption.
On Wednesday 15 January 2025, Kent based Diagrama will be among the voluntary adoption agencies taking part in Big Adoption Day 2025; a day designed to highlight the importance of finding loving adoptive families while sharing the benefits of adopting through a voluntary adoption agency.
With 2,410 children currently waiting to be adopted across England, of which 1,110 have been waiting more than 18 months*, there is an urgent need for more prospective adoptive parents to come forward to provide permanent, loving homes.
Diagrama Adoption is looking for adopters who can offer a permanent home for children across London, Kent, West and East Sussex and Surrey.
Kate Patel, Head of Adoption and Fostering, Diagrama Foundation said, “Our adoption team has a wealth of experience in placing children – particularly those who wait the longest in care including older children, those in sibling groups, and children from the global majority or with disabilities.
“On Big Adoption Day we will be hosting an online question and answer session from 12- 1.30pm where people who have adopted through Diagrama will share their personal experiences and prospective adopters can get answers to questions which might help them decide to start the adoption journey. Our adopters will answer questions about adopting a child with complex needs, an older child or siblings, as well as foster care arrangements for a child that can lead to adoption (usually called an Early Permanency placement). Then at 6pm we are hosting an online information session, with a presentation on adoption and the chance to hear an adopter share their story. People are welcome to attend both events if they would like!”
“Loving families come in all shapes and sizes and we welcome all adoption enquiries regardless of age, faith, sexuality, ethnicity or whether you are single or a couple. If you think that 2025 might be the year to start your adoption journey, please do attend our online event on Big Adoption Day, contact us about our other online information events, or call us. With over 2,400 children waiting to be adopted we would love Big Adoption Day to accelerate the process to find homes for them all.”
The Diagrama Big Adoption Day Information Event for prospective adopters will be held online at 12pm on 15 January 2025.
To book your place for the Diagrama Big Adoption Day Information Event visit www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/big-adoption-day-diagrama-adoption-qa-session-tickets-1109228806219?
For more information about adopting with Diagrama please visit diagramaadoption.org.uk
About Big Adoption Day
Big Adoption Day, led by the Consortium of Voluntary Adoption Agencies and the UK’s first children’s charity Coram, will see participating agencies hosting in-person and online events in their local areas, and celebrating the real-life stories of families who have adopted, to encourage anyone interested in exploring adoption to find out more.
Voluntary Adoption Agencies are independent, not-for-profit organisations, offering a personalised service to adopters from all backgrounds.
About Diagrama Adoption
Diagrama Adoption is an independent, adoption agency, dedicated to finding loving families who can offer a permanent home for children across London, Kent, West and East Sussex and Surrey.
The Diagrama Adoption agency is small enough to offer a personalised and friendly adoption experience while benefitting from the expertise and security that comes with being part of the larger Diagrama charitable foundation. www.diagramafoundation.org.uk
Diagrama Adoption welcomes all adoption enquiries regardless of age, faith, sexuality, ethnicity or whether you are single or a couple.
To find out more about adopting with Diagrama visit www.diagramaadoption.org.uk
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About Diagrama Foundation
Diagrama Foundation is a Kent based charity that supports vulnerable children, young people, and adults to live their best life.
Diagrama has a Supported Living Service across Bromley and Mid Sussex, three homes for adults with learning disabilities in Orpington, an eight-bed care home for adults with learning disabilities in West Sussex a fifty-bed care home for the elderly with nursing and dementia needs in Essex, and a fostering and adoption service in the southeast.
- The Supported Living Service, cares for 33 adults with learning disabilities, in seven schemes across Bromley and one scheme in Mid Sussex helping them to develop skills and confidence to live in their own house either on their own or with others.
- At Cabrini House in Orpington the charity promotes the development of core skills for 23 adults with learning disabilities so that they can lead independent lives integrated within their community.
- Duckyls Farm, a 100 acre care home in West Sussex for eight residents with learning disabilities, allows the charity to explore the physical, mental and social benefits that working with animals and in nature can offer to people with a learning disability.
- The team at their nursing and dementia care home, Edensor Care Centre in Clacton on Sea, support vulnerable residents to live life to the full.
- Diagrama’s not-for-profit adoption and fostering service cares for children in London, Kent, West and East Sussex and Surrey.
Many vulnerable children and adults don’t get the support they need to develop their true potential, but the Diagrama team know that when someone has time and belief invested in them, they come alive, because that investment has made them feel valued and worthy.
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