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Social Care News: Adoption and fostering - Family finding web sitegoes live

A web site to find families to adopt and foster children launched last week.

The British Association for Adoption & Fostering's Be My Parent siteincludes detailed profiles of individual children along with photos,videos, drawings and poems by the children.

The association told Children Now the site used the latest securitytechnology and that no information that could identify the children'such as full names or where they live, is revealed.

Mo O'Reilly, the association's director of child placement, said: "Thisservice will reach a new audience and give agencies an even betterchance of finding suitable matches."

- www.bemyparent.co.uk.

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