Adoption provides a new permanent family for children whose
birth families are not able to bring them up. This gives those
children who may have had difficulties in their early lives an
important new sense of safety and belonging.
Foster care involves looking after other people's children in
your home. Carers provide for children's most basic needs and give
the care and attention that will help them grow and learn.
The Kent Safeguarding Children Board procedures for responding
to children in need of protection from abuse or neglect are
followed by social services, police, health, probation and
education services in the Kent County Council and Medway Council
areas.
The Kent Children's Trust was established in September 2006.
Children's trusts are central to Government policy for improving
children's services and all Local Authorities are expected to have
introduced a Children's Trust by 2008.
The Kent Transition Protocols give the agreed multi-agency
person centered approach to supporting young people who are in
transition to adulthood.