Single Carers have so much to offer!

Shabana, a single Asian adoptive mother of two girls, talks to Suzanne Harding about caring for her daughters and the family’s decision to adopt again.

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Fostering: Making a real difference

Fostering offers the chance to make a real difference in children’s lives. When foster care works well - which it does for thousands of children every day - it is a great way of providing families for children who, for a wide range of reasons, cannot live with their own parents.

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Fostering & Adoption

What is Fostering?

Fostering is a way of providing a family life for children who cannot live with their own parents. It is often used to provide temporary care while parents get help sorting out problems, take a break, or to help children or young people through a difficult period in their lives. Often children will return home once the problems that caused them to come into foster care have been resolved and it is clear that parents are able to look after them safely. Others may stay in long-term foster care, some may be adopted, and others will move on to live independently.

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Every Child Matters

It is estimated that there may be as many as 5,000 children in the UK waiting for permanent new families

There are currently about 66,700 children looked after by local authorities in the UK, two-thirds of whom are in foster homes, but the vast majority - 70% of them will go back to live with their birth families. There are about 5000 children of all ages, mostly living in foster care, who sadly are unable to ever return home. These children do not have what most of us take for granted, a family they can call a ‘forever family’. 3,067 children were adopted from care in England last year but many of them had to wait months or even years to find a family. A further 5000 adoptive families are needed every year in order to match children with the adoptive parents they need.

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