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Fostering, adoption, supported care and kinship care

  • Support and assistance
    Learn about fostering, the steps to becoming a foster carer, how payments for fostering work, and read foster carer stories.
  • Support and assistance
    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.
  • Support and assistance
    Supported carer placements are a 'stepping stone' to independence through helping a young person develop the skills necessary to move on to independent living.