Services for children and young people

We provide a range of services for children and families including family support, fostering and adoption, residential care, leaving care services and child protection. Our services for children aim to protect and support vulnerable children, and help families stay together.

Adoption

Children's guide to adoption (pdf), Adoption Statement of Purpose (pdf).

Fostering

The fostering service arranges the temporary placement of children with foster carers when they are unable to live at home for a range of reasons.

FIND database

Support for children with disabilities and their families.

Other areas of interest

• Child protection

  Child protection services have a duty to protect children and young people from harm caused by neglect or abuse.

• Family Support Service

  An integrated, comprehensive, flexible an consistent family support service for children and young people in need up to the age of eighteen