The sixth annual National Adoption Week is drawing to a close. The campaign hopes to highlight the difference that adoption can make to a child"s life and also the difference it can make to the adoptive parent too.

The City Council's adoption agency stepped up efforts to find more adoptive families before the nationwide campaign began with a recruitment drive that it hoped would increase awareness of the need for permanent families for children in care who cannot live at home.

Nottingham's activities started with a display stand staffed by adoption and fostering recruitment workers, adopters and foster carers at the city"s Victoria Centre. A publicity unit toured the area, stopping in Nottingham"s Old Market Square on Tuesday and Hyson Green market on Wednesday.

The City Council is one of six local adoption agencies that worked together to organise National Adoption Week activities. They also jointly published a new leaflet to raise awareness of the need for adoptive families and encourage people to consider becoming adopters.

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