Does fostering lead to adoption?
Sometimes foster care can lead to adoption although it is primarily meant to provide temporary care to children. The child’s needs are very carefully considered which can mean that another family may adopt the child, and not those people who have provided the child with long-term foster care. Although some foster carers do go on to adopt the child in their care, this is never an automatic outcome. Fostering is not a quick route to adoption. If adoption is what you want you need to apply as an adopter from the beginning.
