Fostering and Adoption

Welcome to Suffolk's Fostering and Adoption Services. We hope these pages will tell you everything you need to know about fostering or adopting a Suffolk child.

In Suffolk today we urgently need more people to come forward to foster or adopt Suffolk children. These pages have been designed to give you enough information about whether fostering or adoption could be right for you

We know there are many misconceptions about who is right for fostering or adoption, but we really are looking for people from all walks of life. So please view these pages with an open mind.

To help give you a better understanding of the different services please click on the links below to find out more.

In this section

Adoption

Information about adoption, skills needed, the assessment process, and support services.

  1. Contact the Suffolk Adoption Agency
  2. Further information and useful links
  3. Post adoption support and contact with birth families and direct relatives
  4. The children waiting
  5. The steps to adoption
  6. Who can adopt
  7. Explore Adoption further

Fostering

Information about the different types of fostering, skills needed, the assessment process, foster care allowances and support services.

  1. Are you thinking about fostering?
  2. Children's profiles
  3. Contact the Fostering Team
  4. Different types of fostering
  5. Existing Suffolk carers page
  6. Fees and allowances
  7. How to become a foster carer
  8. Information events, initial visits and preparation courses
  9. The Fostering Teams
  10. Training and support
  11. Transferring foster carers
  12. Wanted: Foster Carers for Suffolk Siblings
  13. Zipwire - Multi-dimensional Treatment Foster Care
  14. Explore Fostering further