Fostering and Adoption

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What Is Adoption?

All children deserve the best start in life. Adoption offers children the opportunity to grow up in a family that can give them the love, care and security their birth family were unable to provide.

Adoption is a legal process which transfers all legal responsibility for the child to their new parent(s).

Adoption is a permanent, life-long commitment which offers children who have not had the best start in life the opportunity to live happy, healthy, fulfilling lives with their new families.

Adoption can be challenging but it can also be very rewarding. It gives you the chance to help a child whose life has been disrupted, and to watch them develop and benefit from the stability and security of a permanent family.

Adoption is life changing, so make a difference to a child’s life by adopting for Brighton and Hove!