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Adoption and fostering

Welcome to Coventry Adoption and Fostering Service's web pages. We recruit, train and support foster carers and adopters and find families for Coventry children and young people who need a foster home or adoptive family.

You can find out more about adopting or fostering with Coventry by selecting from the menu on the left or by clicking on the links below. Within the adoption section we also provide information for adopted adults and birth families.

Adoption - could you turn a child's life around?

Adoption is a permanent way of providing a new family for a child or children who cannot be brought up by their own parents.  It's a legal procedure in which all the parental responsibility is transferred to the adopters.

In Coventry there are around 30 children currently waiting to be adopted.  They include groups of brothers and sisters who want to stay together, children with learning difficulties or health problems and older children.

Many Coventry children need to be placed with a family outside the city so we welcome adoption enquiries from people living within an hour's drive of Coventry.

Fostering - could you make a positive change in a child's life?

Unlike adoption, fostering means looking after someone else's child when they need a planned (temporary) period away from home.  Foster carers share responsibility for the child they look after with Coventry City Council and the child's birth parents.

In Coventry, foster carers are needed to look after children for both short and longer periods of time.  We also need foster carers who have the skills to look after older children with emotional and behavioural problems as a result of their early life experiences.

For an informal discussion about adoption or fostering, please contact our Recruitment Team at the number below.  It could be the most important call you ever make.

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