At some point during the adoption process, you’ll be asked to create a profile, sometimes called a “pen picture” that will be used to help social workers match you to a child or children.

Typically this is ~300 words to give an insight into your personality, interests, experience, support network and a few details about who you could be a good family for.

Below is some example wording, to help inspire you while creating your own profile.

The SURNAME Family

We have a strong, loving relationship. We met in YEAR and have been happily married for NUMBER years. A works as a JOB TITLE and enjoys video games, music and football.

B works part-time as a JOB TITLE and enjoys gardening, reading and swimming. Following ## months of adoption leave, B plans to return to work on a part time basis. B enjoys taking part in pre-school activities with our X year old daughter, C, such as painting and baking, and is looking forward to sharing these with our next child, and potentially discovering new activities based on their individual interests.

C is fun, adventurous and chatty, and very keen to be a big sister. C enjoys playing with her friends and their baby siblings. She is very gentle and playful, with an exceptional imagination that leads to lots of fun role play games. We have used attachment parenting techniques since C’s birth and find them very effective and rewarding. We enjoy reading stories together, visiting soft play, parks and farms, and spending time with our extended family and friends.

We live in AREA in a #-bedroom semi-detached house within walking distance of a lovely play park with swings and a slide. The house has a playroom and a safe, enclosed garden with lots of garden toys.

We have a strong support network, with A’s parents and brother living nearby. A’s parents have a very close relationship with C and are eager to be very involved in our future child’s life too. We have a # year old nephew and lots of friends with young children, several of whom we have babysat.

We would love to welcome a child of under # months old into our family.