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The Adoption, Fostering and Placements teams are committed to finding safe places to stay for children who are not able to live with their birth parents, and loving adoptive families.

We recruit, assess and train foster carers and adopters, match adopters and foster carers with children, and support carers while they have a child in placement, or until an Adoption Order is made.

We also provide support services for adopted children, adults and birth parents, offer birth records counselling and undertake relative/step parent adoptions for Kingston residents.

All inter-country assessments are now being carried out on our behalf by the InterCountry Adoption Centre (ICA). If you are interested in adopting from abroad, please find a link to their website and contact details at the bottom of this page.

Kingston is home to a range of communities representing many cultures and religions. Increasingly we have children from ethnic and mixed-race backgrounds requiring foster placements and adoptive parents. We welcome enquiries from those who can who can respect and value diversity and reflect the backgrounds of our children.

Use the menu on the left of the page to find the information you are looking for. You can get in touch with us by filling in one of the online forms which you'll find below and on some of our other pages, or by telephone, email or post.

Address:

Telephone:
020 8547 6042 or 020 8547 5004

or email us:
fostering@rbk.kingston.gov.uk
adoption@rbk.kingston.gov.uk

We value your views about our service. If you have a complaint or comment to make about our Adoption or Fostering services, please tell us by clicking on the link under Also See below.

If you are a child in Kingston foster care or in an adoptive placement and would like to make a complaint about how you are being looked after, you can find out what to do by looking at our guide, which you will find under Also See below.

Kingston Adoption Team marked National Adoption Week (31 Oct - 6 Nov) with a drop-in coffee morning at the Market House in Kingston town centre. Kingston adopters and a representative from Adoption UK joined members of the team (pictured below with councillors Margaret Thompson and Patricia Bamford, left) during the event, which offered information and support to those affected by adoption.

Kingston Adoption Team joined colleagues from the South West London Adoption Consortium to exhibit at Black History Live! in Wembley on1-2 October and at The Alternative Families Show in Covent Garden on 17 September.

Surbiton Councillors

helped spread the message about fostering at Surbiton Festival in September. Pictured left to right are Cllr Neil Houston, Cllr Malcolm Self, Cllr John Ayles, Fostering Publicity & Recruitment Officer Chris Appleyard and Cllr Yogan Yoganathan.

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