Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
The Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) has been established because many families need some kind of therapeutic support following adoption and too many have struggled to get the help they need in the past. The Fund will enable them to access the services they need more easily in future. How it works Who […]
How to guides
In this section you will find handy reference guides on how to improve various aspects of your recruitment strategy. The aim is to bring together knowledge gained through research and meetings with various agencies and consortia in to one central reference point for us to share best practice with one another and pass on ideas […]
Adopting siblings
61% of the children waiting to be adopted will need to be placed with a loving family that could provide a home to their brother or sister also. Would you be prepared to adopt a sibling group? This may not be the first you think about when considering adopting a child but it’s probably one of the […]
Success stories: sibling adoption
This family was approved by DFW Adoption and the photograph tells the story of a happy family group and 3 children growing up together with their siblings. Our warm thanks to Peter and Stuart, adoptive parents, and their lovely children Rebecca, Ryan and Rihanna for allowing us to print their photo and their views. […]
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Success stories: Being a parent
The adoption process When we hoped we could be adoptive parents, friends arranged for me to meet their friends who had adopted their children. It was really helpful and I felt inspired. When we decided on our ‘chosen’ adoption agency, because we’d spoken in person to someone, they seemed keen and invited us to an […]
Success stories: Single mum
Great from the word ‘go’ I had always hoped to start my own family, but the right relationship had never come along. I held adoption in very high regard but wasn’t sure what my options would be. One of the first things my social worker told me was how many great single adopters she knew, […]
Success stories: Adopting later in life
Richard and Eleanor’s story “I had three grown up children from my first marriage and always enjoyed being part of a large family. My second wife and I weren’t able to have a child naturally and while we were devoted to each other, we felt there was also room in our lives for children. Our […]
Success stories: Adopting siblings
Sarah and Dan’s story Our social worker was so positive and welcoming. Her attitude always seemed to be ‘you will make great parents’. She explained that she’d support us through adoption, help us understand the commitment that’s involved and then make a really good match. We were delighted to discover that you could adopt siblings […]
About the children
There are over 82,000 children in care in England that need either fostering or adopting. They come from a variety of different ethnic and religious backgrounds and some may have disabilities or other special needs. Most children who need adoptive families have been removed from their birth families by the courts because their parents and […]