In LGBTQ+ adoption, fostering, and kinship families, individuals and couples who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer face distinct challenges and opportunities. This includes navigating acceptance, societal norms, and legal considerations while building supportive family structures.
LEGISLATION AND GUIDANCE
LGBTQ+ Adoption and Fostering Week 2024
LGBTQ+ Adoption & Fostering Week will take place from 4 – 11 March 2024. The annual campaign brings together adoption and fostering agencies from across the UK with LGBTQ+ potential applicants. The week is hosted by New Family Social to raise awareness and encourage the LGBTQ+ community to consider adoption or fostering.
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LGBTQ+ titles
All Books
Recruiting, assessing and supporting lesbian and gay adopters
This Good Practice Guide provides practical guidance, information, advice and signposts to further resources to help agencies and practitioners to welcome lesbian and gay applicants, and work effectively to assess and support them.
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Proud parents
This is a compelling collection of stories of lesbians and gay men who have adopted or fostered children. Single and in partnerships, they share their experiences on a number of issues and write about life as an adoptive family.
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The pink guide to adoption for lesbians and gay men
NEW REVISED AND UPDATED 2020 EDITION How easy is it for lesbian and gay couples to adopt? Can we adopt jointly? Is the adoption process any different from heterosexual adoption? The pink guide to adoption answers these and many more questions. It is an essential step-by-step guide for lesbians and gay men who are considering adoption in the UK
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Practice Note 69. Assessing and supporting transgender foster carers and adopters
This Practice Note has been written to assist practitioners who are assessing transgender applicants in the UK who wish to foster or adopt, and to help fostering services and adoption agencies to work in a way that encourages and values applications from this group of people.
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Our blogs
Supporting transgender, non-binary and gender-diverse foster carers and adopters
In this reflective blog, we consider the key points from our recent webinar with New Family Social about supporting the trans, non-binary and gender diverse adoption community.
Read moreLunch and learn webinar series
On behalf of RAA leaders, we are delivering a series of webinars in relation to diversity and adoption. These short webinars explore promising practice in adoption work in relation to issues of diversity. Please note that the webinars include discussions of topics and experiences that may be triggering or upsetting.
LGBTQ+ Adoption
This event addressed the numerous challenges the LGBTQ+ community faces while caring for children, including discrimination, lack of inclusive support, and societal stigmatisation.
Watch nowEmbracing diversity: supporting trans, non-binary and gender diverse adopters
As LGBTQ+ people are an ever-increasing proportion of adopters, it's crucial that adoption agencies and professionals adapt to the diverse needs and identities of prospective adoptive parents.
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