Adoption East Midlands Newsletter June 2024

Adoption East Midlands celebrated five years as an organisation in April 2024. Over these five years we have been able to work together with our partners to deliver a broader range of services. Our greatest asset is our committed workforce!

We have developed throughout our five years of operation and are committed to continuing development and being able to adapt to new initiatives such as early permanence and maintaining relationships.

To read our group manager’s full update please look at the news item on our adopter’s Support Hub at the link below.

We really enjoyed our adopted young people’s events back in April and received fantastic feedback. Young people said, “It’s important to come to events for adopted young people - there are too many reasons why it’s important!”, “I am not the only person in the world who is adopted. Coming to the events makes me feel really happy I’m not the only one.” and “This was the greatest day ever!”.

We’re looking forward to our young people’s events this summer. Check out our upcoming event in August on our Hub to find out more!

This month we’re highlighting the work of our highly skilled home finders at AEM who provide high quality, child-centred and timely home finding services to the children from our region who have a plan of adoption. 

Our home finders work closely with social workers for the children from an early stage in their care planning journey. This involves making links with adopters and adopters’ social workers to promote and support the best matches for children and help ensure a positive and safe future for all the children we work with. You can see some of the team pictured here at our recent whole service event.

Please check our vacancies page regularly if you are interested in joining our team.

Do you have questions around your child's speech and language development, or perhaps their sensory processing needs?

We have monthly consultations available for parents to speak to Bethan, our Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) Speech and Language Therapist and weekly consultations available to speak to Meriem, our MDT Occupational Therapist. These consultations take place on a Tuesday over Microsoft Teams and you can attend either with or without a social worker.

To express your interest in booking one of the consultations, please visit the Adoption East Midlands Support Hub and complete the relevant online expression of interest form.

We are looking forward to hosting our family picnics once again this year!

These popular events will be taking place in July and September and as always will be a great opportunity to meet up with other adoptive families and chat to Adoption East Midlands staff. There will also be the usual games and activities. Come along and join the fun and don’t forget to bring a picnic with you!

To find out more and book on to one of the events, please email our events team at AdoptionEvents@adoptioneastmidlands.nottscc.gov.uk or visit our events page.