The scheme, called Cornerstone, will also offer aspiring adopters specialist parenting training to help them in their new role, from how to help their child settle into their new home to talking to them about their birth family and why they were adopted.
It is the 10th scheme to be funded through the Department for Education's £100m Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme.
The brainchild of two adoptive parents, Cornerstone will be run as a social enterprise, initially in Berkshire, before being extended to London and the South East.
It is hoped that, alongside providing help and practical training for first-time adopters, it will also boost the number of adoptions taking place by encouraging and supporting prospective adopters along the approval process.
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