Fostering for adoption

What is fostering for adoption?

Fostering for adoption protects children from experiencing multiple moves within the care system. It provides children with good quality, uninterrupted and consistent care while detailed assessments of their birth family are completed and decisions are made about the plan for the child.

Children are placed with approved adopters who have been assessed and approved as temporary foster carers for the child. These carers will provide the day-to-day care for the child and will continue to work with the child’s social worker to ensure that the child has all of their needs met.

Being realistic about what could happen. While it is likely that you would go on to adopt the child, you would have to deal with the uncertainty before the court reaches a final decision. Support is offered in relation to understanding this, throughout your assessment.

You would need to think about the possibility of the child returning to their birth family and would need to work together with the local council to manage this in the most sensitive way for the child.

Support

You will be supported by a social worker who will be able to provide advice and support throughout the fostering for adoption period.

They will continue to offer support up until the point of an adoption matching panel or if the child leaves the foster to adopt placement.

Payment

You will receive a weekly fostering allowance for the child.