Professionals

LGBTQ+ Adoption and Fostering Week 2025

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Today (Monday 3 March) marks the return of LGBTQ+ Adoption and Fostering Week. It’s the UK’s annual campaign to encourage more LGBTQ+ people to consider these routes to parenting and caring. Now in its thirteenth year, the week brings together adoption and fostering agencies with LGBTQ+ potential applicants. ‘Change Lives in ‘25’ focuses on the impact […]

Letterbox process review and update

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Within Adopt South West, we are firmly of the belief that you as parents are the experts in your own families and you know and understand your children’s needs far better than any professional could ever hope to. As such, we feel that you are far better placed to receive the correspondence from birth families, read these and make the decision as to whether the letters are appropriate and will support your child’s well-being now or whether you will store them for the future. Adopt South West will therefore be changing the practice of reading correspondence before it is sent on to you as of the 1st April 2025.  

Adoption England Youth Voice and Influence Conference: Learning from adopted young people’s experience

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We had the opportunity to explore the work and journeys of several regional and voluntary adoption agencies being led by the voice of the children and young people we seek to serve. The conference was not just for professionals, but young people with experience of being adopted and was led and guided by what they had wanted to focus on.

The Journey: adoption

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For the first time in recent years, there are now more children in need of adoption than those coming forward to adopt. The rewards of giving a child a loving, stable home are unparalleled, even when the journey shows that the path may not always be smooth. The campaign is supported by BBC’s ‘The Traitors’ contestant Miles Asteri, adoptive father of two, who described adoption as ‘the adventure of a lifetime’.