We hope that we can answer many of your questions on these pages but feel free to contact us for an informal and down to earth chat. Fostering or adoption is a complex process and it often helps to talk through your concerns or questions with us to help you decide the right direction for you.
In this section
Fostering
Who can foster, how to become a foster carer and how much you'll get paid.
Adoption
The skills you'll need, the steps involved with adopting and adoption support.
The you effect
Find out about the effect foster and adoptive carers can have on a young person's life.
Black and minority ethnic carers
The Sahara Adoption and Fostering project.
About the Fostering and Adoption service
What we're doing to meet the needs of our carers and the children in their care.
Contact us
Get in touch with us for an informal chat about fostering or adoption.