What is the difference between fostering and adoption?
Adoption is a legal process by which parental responsibility for a child is permanently and irrevocably transferred from birth parents to adoptive parents. Fostering is different. Foster carers always share the responsibility for looking after a child with social services, and do not become the child’s parent legally. Fostering can be a temporary way of looking after a child until he or she can return to a birth family, or it can be a permanent arrangement.
