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Local adoptive families create a new collaborative display at The Box, Plymouth

Our families have been working with artist Beth Emily Richards through six creative workshops to explore the idea of a personal archive, scanning archive images from personal photo albums, and using digital photography, collage and other creative approaches. The display can be seen in The Box’s Simmons Learning Room window until Sunday 14 September.

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 […]

Letterbox process review and update

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.