LGBTQ+ Adoption and Fostering Week calls on the community to explore adoption and fostering as routes to building families. It runs from 3 – 8 March 2025.
LGBTQ+ Adoption & Fostering Week, calls for more people from the community to consider both, in the face of an urgent need for more adoptive parents and foster carers.
Led by charity New Family Social, the campaign brings together adoption and fostering agencies across the country with LGBTQ+ applicants.
The campaign, rolling out on social media with videos and podcasts, calls on the community to think about how it could change lives in 2025.
In England there are 83,630 looked-after children. Last year 1 in 5 adoptions in the country were to same-gender couples. However, the actual number of adoptions to these couples fell by 40 from 2023.
Tor Docherty, Chief Executive of New Family Social, said: ‘LGBTQ+ people in the UK can and do adopt and foster, but our country’s most vulnerable children need more of us to come forward. You’ll help a child who’s had a chaotic start in life find and forge their identity, changing their life and yours for the better.’
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Find out more about LGBTQ+ Adoption & Fostering
- You can find out more about the campaign on New Family Social’s website.
- The charity has created a series of videos that explain what to expect on your fostering or adoption journey. You can find them on the campaign landing page, or its You Tube channel.
- There is also a series of podcasts on the New Family Social’s podcast – Adoption, Fostering & Tea – featuring stories from people taking their first steps on their adoption and fostering journeys, to veteran adoptive parents and carers. You can also find these on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
