It is 8am and Hannah Barrs arrives at the large open-plan office shared by Derby City Council's adoption, fostering and children's services. There is a hot-desking arrangement so she finds a space and logs on to her laptop.
Barrs is currently looking for adoptive families for 17 children. She sends out children's profiles, reads profiles of approved adopters and contributes to matching reports for adoption panels to consider.
She has been an adoption social worker for 10 years. Before that, she spent five years as a social worker in child protection and working with looked-after children, some of whom went on to be adopted. "I've seen it from both sides," she says.
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