Liverpool City Council has launched a search for adoptive families for 70 children currently in care in the city. It hopes to use National Adoption Week as a way of raising awareness among families in the city.
The council said more black families, in particular, were needed to adopt children hoping for a permanent home.
Councillor Paul Clein said he was keen to avoid placing youngsters in children's homes or miles away from Liverpool itself.
'Sense of achievement'
Many of the children waiting for adoption are aged over five and in sibling groups.
Mr Clein said: "Many people rule themselves out as they don't think they meet the criteria.
"But the truth is that all kinds of people make good adoptive parents and it often doesn't matter what your personal circumstances are."
An information evening will be held at Glaxo Neurological Centre, on Norton Street on Thursday starting at 1900 GMT.
The council's executive director of children's services, Colin Hilton, said: "All the evidence we have is that children thrive and develop in families.
"It gives a tremendous sense of achievement and doing something that has a real benefit for future generations."
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