A PADGATE agency worker has been named as Adoption Support Worker of the Year at the National Adoption Week Awards in London.
Delyth Evans, Support Service Manager at Adoption Matters, has worked within children’s services for more than 30 years.
She set up a pioneering Adoption Support Service within Cheshire East Council that was recognised for being the first in the area to develop support into schools and in producing a highly efficient Letterbox service.
Adoption Matters Chief Executive, Norman Goodwin CBE, said: “When Adoption Matters and Caritas Care set up our regional Centre for Adoption Support back in 2013, Delyth was our first choice when it came to identifying who had the specialist experience and skills to establish and manage it”.
By the end of the first two years the Centre, which is based in Padgate, had considerably exceeded all targets and expectations. Delyth was recently invited to share the centres model with in both Wales and Northern Ireland.
The Centre, which is run in partnership with Caritas Care, offers training and support to adopters, their families and professionals and has now worked with 453 families, nearly 40 different local authorities and over 100 schools across the North West and continues to grow.
