Fostering, adoption and kinship care

For:

Children, Families, Young people

What we do

We provide help to looked-after children and young people with emotional and behavioural problems.

We provide a service for looked-after children and young people and their carers, adoptive families and children in the care of their extended families or friends (kinship carers) who experience emotional or behavioural problems.

Looked-after or adopted children are more vulnerable to various emotional, behavioural and learning issues than their non-adopted/looked-after peers living with their biological parents. They are more likely to have poor educational experiences, leave school with fewer qualifications, are at higher risk of offending, becoming a teenage parent and not be in any education, training or employment.

We provide post-adoption therapeutic work that can be funded on application to the adoption support fund. This needs to be agreed by your local social services post adoption support team.