Find out how you can foster or adopt a child in Wolverhampton.
Fostering for Wolverhampton

Fostering for Wolverhampton means that you are helping local children and your community by keeping children local, close to their family, schools and friends. Anyone can be a foster carer, we welcome all backgrounds. Foster carers can be sole carers, married or in a relationship, working or not working - and they won't be on their own as help and support is available 24 hours a day. To find out more please visit our Fostering in Wolverhampton website.

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The difference between adoption and fostering

Adoption means taking a child into your home permanently and legally as part of your family.

Fostering usually means offering a temporary home to children until they either return to the family home or move on to live with a relative, adopter or long term foster carer.

There are many similarities between adoption and long term fostering. In both cases, you will look after a child as if he or she is your own son or daughter.

The differences are mainly to do with the legal status of the child.

Private fostering

Do you know a child being looked after by someone who is not a close relative?

To find out more please visit our Fostering in Wolverhampton website.

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