Fostering, adoption, supported care and kinship care

Learn about fostering, the steps to becoming a foster carer, how payments for fostering work, and read foster carer stories.

If you're tolerant, flexible and patient, and you're interested in finding out what's involved, read our resources about adoption, the adoption process, and real adoption stories.

Supported carer placements are a 'stepping stone' to independence through helping a young person develop the skills necessary to move on to independent living.

Birth Connections is for birth parents, or member of a birth family, who have a child who has been adopted. We provide peer support, life skills, community and more.