Adoption, fostering, short break and kinship care
Learn how we can support you with adoption, which can provide a permanent family for a child in care who cannot return to their birth family.
Fostering allows children and young people, who are unable to live with their parents, the chance to live in a secure and loving family home.
If you have decided fostering might be for you, find out more about the process and next steps.
When parents make arrangements with people who aren't close relatives, or foster carers, to care for their children for 28 days or more.
Family based short breaks allow an approved carer to offer children and young people short stays in their home to assist families at difficult times.
Kinship care can allow children and young people to live with other family members if they experience issues within their birth family.
Supported carers offer accommodation and practical/emotional support to young people aged 16 to 21 who were previously looked after by the local authority.