Bookings are now open for our 2025 annual conference. This year’s focus is on the transition to adulthood.
Adopt South West Annual Conference 2025: Transitions to adulthood
Support for adopters
Merlin’s Magic Wand: gifted single-day admission tickets
Approach Adopt South West for a referral: We need make a referral for your family (you can’t do it yourself). All you need to do is fill out our Merlin’s Magic Wand application form
Could you mentor a new adoptive parent?
Do you feel you can support others? Could you spend an hour a week, a fortnight or a month mentoring a new adoptive parent?
Become part of our Peer Mentoring Scheme.
Fair Access Limit (FAL) changes and requests
All therapeutic support and specialist assessments linked to your child will come out of the total £3,000 FAL with no separate additional funding available for specialist assessments. Find out more.
Newsflash: Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) Fair Access Limit
Adopt South West is currently reviewing all existing ASGSF applications to ensure a positive resolution.
Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) update, 1 April 2025
On Tuesday 1 April 2025, it was confirmed by the Department for Education that the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) will continue for the financial year of 2025/26. We have received information from Adoption England.
Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) applications (awaiting decision)
We are unable to submit applications for funding for new periods or continuations of therapy into April 2025 until the Government has communicated the spending decisions.
LGBTQ+ Adoption and Fostering Week 2025
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 […]