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Thinking about adoption? Our monthly online sessions are a great place to start! If you’re thinking about Adoption but aren’t sure where to start, join our free, informal sessions for a relaxed chat, no pressure, no commitment. What to expect: Whether you’re ready to take the next step or simply want to learn more, this…

As part of Foster Care Fortnight, we invited our adopters to share their thoughts on their relationships they have with the foster carers. As part of Foster Care Fortnight, we invited our adopters to share their thoughts on the relationships they have with the foster carers who looked after their children before adoption. Their responses…

Thinking about fostering? Our monthly online sessions are a great place to start! After the success of our Foster Care Fortnight information session, we’re excited to launch a monthly online drop-in for anyone curious about fostering! If you’re thinking about fostering but aren’t sure where to start, join our free, informal sessions for a relaxed…

Someday This Could Be Ordinary: Our Adoption Journey, Learning Loss, Love, and Laughter by Nell Carpenter Nell Carpenter’s Someday This Could Be Ordinary is a deeply personal and raw account of one family’s adoption journey, offering an unflinching yet hopeful glimpse into the realities of adoption. With honesty and heart, Carpenter takes readers through the highs and…

We Talk Adoption and Fostering (WTAF) Scottish Adoption and Fostering is excited to announce the rebrand of TeenTalk to We Talk Adoption and Fostering (WTAF), a platform created by care experienced youngsters for care experienced youngsters. WTAF will officially be launching this summer with a brand-new podcast series. The podcast will focus on topics that…

Introducing Joy … We are excited to share that Joy will be joining the Scottish Adoption and Fostering Team over the summer as our Podcast Production Intern. Joy, a University of Glasgow Masters Student, will be spending eight weeks interning with us from June. Her main focus will be working alongside our Young Ambassadors to…

We will be at three Pride events across the Central Belt of Scotland. It’s the start of June and that can only mean one thing – Pride Month! This year we are excited to share that the team will be at the following Pride events: If you are planning on coming along to any of…

Find out more about how our funding is going to be spent. Scottish Adoption and Fostering is celebrating after being awarded funding from the National Lottery to support its work continuing the delivery of wraparound therapeutic activities that support effective adoption and fostering in Scotland. Scottish Adoption and Fostering’s Therapy Centre has been running for…

Find out more about how our W.I.S.E. Up workshops can help you and your family. W.I.S.E. Up is an empowerment programme designed to create a safe space for children to express their feelings about being adopted and to prepare them for intrusive and insensitive remarks from others as they get older. Questions they might encounter…

Shining a spotlight on the great work of our School Transition Groups. For nearly ten years Scottish Adoption and Fostering have been running school transition groups for children starting primary school or moving to high school in the new school year. Meet the Session Leaders Scott Mitchell – Scott is an adoptive parent and primary school teach…