NATIONAL ADOPTION WEEK

Early day motion 2437, tabled 6 November 2008 by Tim Loughton (Conservative). Signed by 58 members.

That this House supports National Adoption Week, which runs from 10th to 16th November 2008, organised by the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF); congratulates the BAAF on the excellent work it carries out to promote and support adoption in the United Kingdom; believes that adoption with a loving family provides vulnerable children who cannot live with their birth parents a much better chance of continuity and stability of care when all efforts to keep the child with his or her birth parents or extended family have been exhausted; is concerned about recent figures showing a decline in the number of children successfully adopted; and urges the Government and local authorities to do all they can to promote more families coming forward to offer adoptive placements.

Signatures by party: Labour 29, Conservative 12, Liberal Democrat 11, Scottish National Party 2, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2, DUP 1, Independent 1.