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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.
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.
- Adoptive parents must be over 21. We do not have an upper age-limit for prospective adopters, but age will be one of the factors, alongside others, taken into account for assessment
- A single person can adopt, but a couple must be married to adopt jointly; this is a legal requirement in Scotland. We ask that couples have been in a stable relationship prior to application. Where 2 single people live together, only one of them can apply to adopt although the circumstances and views of the other person would be included if an assessment was taken up.
- Being employed, or unemployed should not hinder your application to adopt, or to become a permanent foster carer.
- You don't have to own your own home, but we may need to make checks with your landlord if you rent it.
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