We hope that we can answer many of your questions on these pages but feel free to contact us for an informal and down to earth chat. Fostering or adoption is a complex process and it often helps to talk through your concerns or questions with us to help you decide the right direction for you.
In this section
[Girl]Fostering
Who can foster, how to become a foster carer and how much you'll get paid.
[Boy]Adoption
The skills you'll need, the steps involved with adopting and adoption support.
[Girl holding a carer's hand]The you effect
Find out about the effect foster and adoptive carers can have on a young person's life.
[Family]Black and minority ethnic carers
The Sahara Adoption and Fostering project.
[Teenagers]About the Fostering and Adoption service
What we're doing to meet the needs of our carers and the children in their care.
[Lady on the phone]Contact us
Get in touch with us for an informal chat about fostering or adoption.