81
children placed with families in 2024
Adoption Matters, About usAdoption & fostering
Adoption Matters
Finding families for children and giving adopters the specialist support to help those families thrive.
The organisation
Purpose, challenge and response.
Overview
Adoption Matters is a children's charity and voluntary adoption agency. Established in 1947, it recruits, prepares and supports adopters, and works with local authorities and regional adoption agencies across England to find stable, loving families for children who cannot live with their birth families.
The challenge
Adoption is not a single event. Many children waiting for a family have experienced early trauma, loss or disrupted care. Adoptive parents, foster carers and professionals need practical, trauma-informed knowledge before placement and dependable specialist support long afterwards.
How it responds
Alongside its adoption service, Adoption Matters runs the Centre for Fostering and Adoption Support. Its multidisciplinary team provides therapeutic social work, occupational therapy, consultations, support packages, training and services for adopted adults seeking access to their records.
Key data points
61
new adopters welcomed in 2024
Adoption Matters, About us344
views of free training videos in 2024–25
Adoption Matters, CFAS169
families receiving support packages in 2024–25
Adoption Matters, CFASFigures are drawn from the organisation's published information and retain the reporting period shown.
Trust initiative · Training partner
Our relationship.
The Welch Trust helped shape and fund Adoption Matters' free online training videos for adoptive families, foster carers, children and the professionals who support them.
Adoption Matters credits the Trust directly on its training portal: “The filming of our online training videos were generously funded by The Welch Trust.”