‘Get in the Frame’ as part of Foster Care fortnight Oxfordshire County Council is launching its annual drive to encourage more people across the county to ‘Get in the Frame’ and become foster carers. The council is using national Foster Care Fortnight (May 13 – 26) to urge people with a range [...]
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A new confidence – LGBT A&F Week 2013 reviewed
With the second national LGBT Adoption & Fostering Week completed, NFS Director Andy Leary-May looks back. While many people have always known the value of the LGBT community as a source of new parents for children, there is a new confidence. This was brought home to me by the events of LGBT Adoption & Fostering [...]
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Swindon……Families Needed . . .
Swindon Borough Council is looking for foster carers and adopters from the lesbian and gay communities. Carers come from all kinds of backgrounds. The only common denominator is that they are people who are committed to helping children and young people by offering to share their homes and their lives for a period of time. [...]
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Could you be a family for a child who needs one?
2nd annual LGBT Adoption and Fostering Week could help meet desperate need for foster carers and adopters across the UK Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are being urged to consider adoption and fostering, ahead of the second annual LGBT Adoption and Fostering Week, which runs from 4th to 10th March 2013. Leading adoption [...]
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Supporting Adoptive Families
Adoption UK is a national charity that has worked with and on behalf of adoptive parents, prospective adopters and foster carers for over 40 years. In recent years, three major acts of parliament – Adoption and Children’s Act 2002, Civil Partnership Act 2004 and the Equality Act 2006 – have reflected changes in [...]
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10 steps of adoption
To mark National Adoption Week, we take a look at the ten steps to adoption. Same-sex couples provide vital loving families for many children across the country. Could you offer a home for a child in need as well? Make an application You can contact your local authority or voluntary adoption agency in your area. [...]
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Foster carers needed in Hampshire
If you’ve thought about fostering before, or are just learning about it for the first time, there’s never been a more important time to foster. We urgently need more carers to look after children and young teens to help them achieve their full potential. With over 500 foster carers working with Hampshire County Council to [...]
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Put yourself in the Picture: Fostering with West Sussex County Council
“It’s so satisfying to know that something you have done has made a real difference to a child’s life. There’s nothing quite like it” West Sussex has over 400 foster carers but is always looking for more people to provide a warm and nurturing family environment for those children in need. Could you make the [...]
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Children in need of forever families
We need people from all over the UK who can welcome children into their lives and offer a loving, stable and safe family. North Somerset Council has seen a rise in the number of children who need adoptive parents outside of the area, so we’d like to hear from you, whatever your location. Here are [...]
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Every 22 minutes across the UK, a child needs a foster carer
There is ever increasing pressure on the care system to find the most appropriate homes for these children so that they can have the best possible chance of a positive future. Foster carers who have the skills to work with, encourage and aid the development of a child are often the best people to care [...]
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