Our fostering project is a team approach to fostering that offers these carers support from social workers, support foster carers and a 24 hour on call service. Fostering project carers are paid enhanced fees so that they can do this work as an alternative to other employment. We also need support foster carers to provide relief or respite care for short periods, sometimes looking after children in their own homes. These carers are paid on an hourly basis. Adoption Adoption is a way of providing new, permanent families for children who cannot be brought up by their own parents.
Adoption is a legal process.
After an Adoption Order is granted, the adopters become the legal parents. When we think of adoption, we often imagine tiny babies being given up to new parents but adoption today is rarely like this. Very few babies are available for adoption, usually fewer than five a year. Most children placed or waiting for adoption are over 2 years of age and are in care because they have been abused, neglected or rejected by their natural parents. Some are groups of brothers and sisters who need to stay together, some have disabilities and some are from particular ethnic backgrounds.