Fostering and adoption
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Giving vulnerable children a safe environment
If you’ve decided you want to help vulnerable children – giving them a loving, stable home while local authorities find a long-term place for them, it’s worth finding out more about fostering. When you plan to adopt, it can also help if you look after vulnerable children as early as possible, before adopting them permanently. Here we explain the various options and what’s involved.
Considering fostering?
Foster care is quite different from adoption, giving children loving, stable care until they can return to their own family or move on elsewhere. There are over 44,000 children and young people in foster care throughout the UK, and there’s a major shortage of foster carers. So if you want to give vulnerable children a loving, stable environment while authorities find a healthy long-term solution for them, fostering could be for you.
Fostering for adoption
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