What about Adoptive Parents and Permanent Foster Carers?

Like foster carers, adopters and permanent carers come from a wide variety of backgrounds and experience. Some are unable to have their own children, but wish to be parents and see adoption as a positive way of achieving this. For a variety of reasons, others wish to add to the family they already have.

Some families who are considering fostering decide from the outset that they wish to offer long-term or permanent care to a child. From time to time, foster carers "claim" a child they have grown particularly close to. Some permanent carers are experienced parents with a grown up family who feel they can offer a child/young person stability and security from which they can grow to independent adulthood.