The Adoption Matters family has grown as Foster Care Matters launches

On Thursday 9 May 2024, the Adoption Matters family grew as we launched our new not-for-profit fostering agency, Foster Care Matters. The agency received their Ofsted Registration in early May, just in time for Foster Care Fortnight 2024.

Pictured right from left to right: Paul Dolan, Head of Adoption Adoption Matters , Karen Palfreyman, Foster Care Matters Registered Fostering Manager and Susy White, Adoption Matters Chief Executive.

Foster Care Matters will offer stable and loving homes for children and young people aged 0 to 18 years and will be recruiting foster parents across the North West.

As part of a children’s charity with children’s needs at their heart, Foster Care Matters is committed to re-investing back into their services to offer high-quality support and ongoing training to their foster families, enabling them to help children matter.

The agency offers a therapeutic approach and dedicated support to foster parents including access to the Centre for Fostering and Adoption Support, an established and recognised centre in the North West, offering innovative, bespoke, ongoing support from a multi-disciplinary team including occupational therapists and trained therapeutic social workers.

Karen Palfreyman, Foster Care Matters Registered Manager (pictured right with Karen Davies and Susy White from Adoption Matters) commented:

“We are delighted to launch our new agency just ahead of Foster Care Fortnight 2024, which is such an important event for raising awareness of the many aspects of fostering. Nearly 70,000 children live with almost 55,000 foster families across the UK each day. This is nearly three-quarters of the over 98,000 children in care away from home on any one day in the UK. Every year thousands of new foster families are needed.

In the North West, there is a huge need for foster parents who can care for children of all ages, cultures and backgrounds.
Foster Care Matters therapeutic approach runs through everything we do and we cannot wait to start building our fostering family by recruiting foster parents across the North West”.

Visit the website: www.fostercarematters.org.uk