...What is Care Planning?

If you are new to adoption and new to thinking about whether adopting is right for you and your family, during your research you may or may not have heard the term care planning or family finding. Here at adoption now we are essentially made up of 3 teams. Our Recruitment team, our support team and our care planning or family finding team. Across our social media channels and our website we focus a lot on the recruitment of adopters and our amazing support team for our children and adopters alike. But we don’t often get chance to talk about our Careplanning Team. Now you may hear other agencies refer to these teams as Family Finding. And as the name suggests, their role is to find adopters for the children they are case holding for. For this episode I sat down to chat with 2 members of our Careplanning team to find out how they go about finding a family, some of the challenges that they face and what they look for in adopters for their children. If you are thinking about adopting and looking for the perfect place to start, we always recommend that you come to one of our Online Information Events. Hosted by one of our social workers, featuring an adopter guest speaker they are best place for you to have your questions about adoption answered! They take place twice a month on Microsoft TEAMS and you can reserve your free place at our next event by visiting adoptionnow.org.uk/events Or if you would like to speak to a member of our team why not call our information line on 01204 336096. Our Information line is open 9am- 5pm Monday to Friday and member of our Welcome Team will be only too happy to take your call and answer any questions that you may have.