Links

• Barnardo's information on fostering and adoption This information includes blogs from fostering parents, talking about their daily lives with their foster children, takes you step-by-step through the adoption process, and gives all the Barnardo's projects involved in fostering or adoption.
• BAAF The UK charity British Agency for Adoption and Fostering, working for children separated from their birth families.
• Fostering Network The UK's leading charity for everyone with a personal or professional involvement in fostering.
• Adoption UK Adoption UK is a national charity run by and for adopters, providing self-help information, advice, support and training on all aspects of adoption and adoptive parenting. They have a very good message board.
• Department for work and pensions For more information on fostering and adoption allowances and questions regarding tax.
• Contact a Family Contact a Family is a UK charity for families with disabled children.
• Adoption Register Details of a new database that stores the details of children awaiting adoption and approved adopters awaiting placements.
• Be My Parent Be My Parent is a service run by BAAF that aims to raise awareness about adoption and fostering issues, recruit adoptive and permanent foster families and bring children and permanent families together through their Be My Parent newspaper.
• Child Tax credit The Child Tax Credit is a means tested benefit, which means the amount you receive will depend on your individual circumstances, which is paid to parents and carers of children, or young people who are still in education.