1 July 2024
Discover more about fostering, adoption and supported lodgings
Every fifteen minutes in the UK, a child will come into care. Many will have suffered neglect or abuse; all will experience trauma and loss. Each one deserves a home where they will be loved, nurtured, and enabled to thrive, whether that’s through short-term or long-term foster care, with a new adoptive family, or through supported lodgings.
The church is ideally placed to ensure that every child and young person has the loving home they need. Some of us may be called to open our homes to children and young people in care, through fostering, adoption or supported lodgings.
If just one family from each church came forward to foster, adopt or provide supported lodgings, and the rest of their church wrapped around them to support, we would meet the entire need in the UK right now. This would make a profound impact on children in need, and on our nation.
- Do you want to understand more about the care system?
- Do you want to see your church become a welcoming space for looked after children and care leavers?
- Do you want to explore fostering, adoption or offering supported lodgings?
- Can you provide support to a family that has opened their home to Looked After Children.
Please come to our open evening on 1 July at The Hub in Chalfont St Peter.
We will hear from individuals with first hand experience of the care system. We are delighted to welcome guest speakers from:
Come at 7.30pm for refreshments, ready for an 8pm start. After the talks, there will be a panel taking questions from those attending. There will also be opportunities to chat privately.
To help us plan seating and refreshment numbers it would be helpful if you could indicate if you plan to attend by registering at this link.
Any questions please email office@goldhill.org
