As a trans person, what is it like to be in foster care?

Jo agrees, saying she and Liz, who died four years ago, never felt like equals as parents. This week is LGBT Adoption and Fostering Week, run by NFS, and the charity is appealing for more LGBT people to consider adopting or fostering a child. read more

In 2013, the average length of stay in foster care was 13.5 months. That's still too long in the life of a child. Children enter foster care at all ages. The greatest need is for people to become foster and adoptive parents to teenagers. read more

My first memory is from a foster home - in all, I stayed in at least six different homes and was in and out of foster care and kinship care dozens of times - starting before the age of two and ending when I was about thirteen. read more

It's a constant source of frustration that the children in the care system appear to have far fewer rights than the people who have let them down. Friends regularly ask us why we foster. The answer from my partner, Mr Practical, is – we've got the space, we've got the love and there is a desperate need. read more