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LGBTQ+ Adoption & Fostering Week returns from 2 March, 2026. If you're LGBTQ+ and considering adopting or fostering this is the campaign for you. You don't need to wait for the perfect time to start your journey. You won't be the first person from our community to adopt or foster with the agency you choose. The child whose life you transform through adoption or fostering is already waiting to be introduced to you. #NowsTheTime to take the first step on your adoption or fostering journey. Wherever you are in the UK, there's an urgent need for more LGBTQ+ people to consider adoption and fostering. And by adopting or fostering you'll transform the life of a vulnerable child as well as your own. Below you can see some basic information about adoption and fostering. There's also a free tool to help you find agencies near you that offer free access to dedicated support for LGBTQ+ applicants, adoptive parents and foster carers. And across the campaign we'll share new video clips across our Facebook and Instagram channels, as well as list some of our most popular podcast episodes below.
Agencies supporting LGBTQ+ Adoption & Fostering Week 2026
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Read the full list of participating agencies
Agencies offering full free access to services for LGBTQ+ applicants: Adopt Birmingham RAA , Adopt Coast 2 Coast RAA , Adopt East RAA, Adopt London East RAA, Adopt London North RAA, Adopt London South RAA, Adopt London West RAA, Adopt South West RAA, Adopt Thames Valley RAA, Adopters for Adoption, Adoption@Heart RAA, Adoption Central England (ACE) RAA, Adoption Connects RAA, Adoption Counts RAA, Adoption Focus, Adoption in Merseyside (AiM) RAA, Adoption Matters, Adoption Partnership South East RAA, Adoption Tees Valley RAA, Adoption West RAA, ARC Adoption North East, Banya Family Placement Agency, Barnardo's, Brighton & Hove City Council [Fostering Service], Buckinghamshire County Council RAA, Cambridgeshire & Peterborough RAA, Caritas Care, CCS Adoption, Coram Ambitious for Adoption RAA, Adoption Cumbria, Fostering Cumbria, Diagrama, Doncaster Council [Fostering Service], Family Adoption Links RAA, Family Futures, Foster Care Matters, Foster East RFA, Foster for Bradford [Bradford Children & Families trust], Foster Wales, Foster Wales Carmarthenshire, Foster Wales Caerphilly, Foster Wales Conwy, Foster Wales Pembrokeshire, Foster with Coventry, Fostering North London, Fostering South West RFA, Hope Fostering, Kibble, Leeds City Council [Fostering Service], Leicester City Council [Fostering Service], Leicestershire County Council [Fostering Service], National Adoption Service [Wales], North Wales Adoption Service, Northumberland County Council [Fostering Service], One Adoption North & Humber RAA, One Adoption South Yorkshire RAA, One Adoption West Yorkshire RAA, PACT, Scottish Adoption & Fostering, Sheffield City Council [Fostering Service], South East Wales Adoption Service [SEWAS], South Gloucestershire Council [Fostering Service], Southampton City Council [Fostering Service], St Andrew's Children's Society, Staffordshire County Council [Fostering Service], Surrey County Council [Fostering Service], Together for Adoption RAA, Together4Children RAA, Vale, Valleys & Cardiff Regional Adoption Collaborative, West Sussex County Council [Fostering Service], Western Bay Adoption Service, Yorkshire Adoption Agency 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ ⏭️ Agencies supporting the campaign that don't offer access to New Family Social's services: Foster Birmingham, Fostering Shared Services, Inverclyde HSCP, East Riding of Yorkshire Council [Fostering Service], Foster with North East, Fostering Wakefield, Local Authority Fostering South East [LAFSE], Lorimer Fostering, Medway Council [Fostering Service], Fostering South East, Portsmouth City Council [Fostering Service], Hampshire Council [Fostering Service], Adoption East Midlands RAA, Adoption Lancashire & Blackpool and Lancashire County Council's Fostering Service, Gateshead Council [Fostering Service]
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Find local agencies near you
Use our agency finder to locate those near you. They're all keen to speak to LGBTQ+ potential applicants. Every one can offer you free access to our dedicated services for LGBTQ+ adopters and foster carers. Type your nearest town or region to refine the results. For example if you type in 'Lancaster' and no agencies appear, try typing in 'North West England'.
You can access our full list of agencies that offer free access to our services by joining us for free as a Bronze member. Join as Bronze member
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Will I be the first LGBTQ+ person the agency has worked with?
No. While no government in the UK publishes data on how many LGBTQ+ people foster, we do know how many same gender couples adopt each year. In England 1 in 5 adoptions in 2025 were to same-gender couples, accounting for 610 of 3040 adoptions. In Scotland, 1 in 8 adoptions in 2024 were to same-gender couples, accounting for 48 out of 369 adoptions.
The latest statistics in Wales - released at the start of 2025 - show that 1 in 5 adoptions in Wales in 2024 were to same-gender couples.
1 in 11 adoptions in Northern Ireland in 2025 were to same-gender couples. According to the government 'some 9 per cent [of adopters] were same sex couples who were married, in a civil partnership or unmarried'.
What is the process to adopt or foster?
Adopting in England / Fostering in England Adopting in Scotland / Fostering in Scotland Adopting in Wales / Fostering in Wales Adopting in Northern Ireland / Fostering in Northern Ireland
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