Every Child Matters

Could you Foster or Adopt a child?

Over 4,000 children in the UK are waiting for a new family, either through adoption or permanent (long term) fostering. There are many reasons why children are placed into care. All kinds of people, from all kinds of backgrounds and cultures are needed to become adoptive parents and foster carers for all types of children.

Every child or young person deserves a home that makes them feel secure, safe comfortable, loved and cared for - a home that's right for their age, ethnicity, religion and social needs. This is equally true for young people with learning difficulties or a range of physical disabilities.

Our Every Child Matters section is designed to help you locate your local authority or the best independent agency for you and provide you with resources that will help you find out everything you need to know regarding Fostering and Adoption.

To locate your local contacts for Fostering or Adoption please click on the map.

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Mother & Child Reunion

Zara h phillips, born in the early 60s was adopted at two months. Age 23, zara decided to search for birth mother and went on to document the reunion in her book, mother and me. Her story highlights the mixed emotions and life long impact of her adoption

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.

Thinking of fostering?

Here are your top 10 questions answered by the National Fostering Agency

The first thing to note is that adoption is about caring for someone else’s child. It always has to be borne in mind that however, loving, stable and close a relationship develops between adopters and their child or children there will always be the fact that they are not the child’s birth parents to be considered. No amount of love can make this fact disappear.