Relationships
Life is never simple. Relationships come in all different forms
and can be quite complicated whether it’s family, friends or your
loved one.
seems OK on the whole
Issues can run from coping with your parent’s marriage breakdown
to splitting up with your girlfriend to coping with the death of a
close friend.
Here are just a few websites that offer advice and support:
Mums, dads, aunts, grandparents, great-grandparents, schools,
social workers, foster carers, welfare officers. The amount of
people involved in family life can be quite daunting, especially if
you have experienced fostering or adoption.
Adoption and fostering are two
different things. Being adopted is a legal process which
means that you will become part of a new family and that you will
no longer belong to your birth family.
Being fostered means you will be
looked after by your foster carer in their home but you will still
be able to have regular contact with you family. Your birth
parents will still be responsible for you.
The
Connexions website has some further information on the
definitions of fostering and adoption.
Adoption
Finding out you’ve been adopted may be quite a shock. But you’re
not alone. Thousands of children are adopted in the UK every
year.
Kent County Council is the authority responsible for adoption in
Kent visit the Kent County Council
Adoption Service website to find out more.
Here are some organisations who can help out with adoption
questions:
Foster Care
If you are in foster care there is a network of people who are
on hand to provide you with us much help and support as you need.
For more information visit the websites below:
Ashford Borough Council, Civic Centre, Tannery Lane, Ashford TN23 1PL
Call: 01233 330290 Email: info@whatmattersashford.co.uk Text: 07765 897208
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