Today's Child
OLIVER 2 years
is a happy child who loves to be held and cuddled. He enjoys music and responds well to verbal stimulations and smiles. Oliver is globally developmentally delayed and has cerebral palsy. He is completely reliant on his carer and his new adoptive family will need to accept some future developmental uncertainty. Needing: adoption
Welcome to Be My Parent
We are a family-finding service for children in the UK who need an adoptive or permanent foster family. Be My Parent is run by the British Association for Adoption & Fostering (BAAF), and has a monthly newspaper and website.
To use our website to search for children needing adopting or fostering, and to make enquiries, families must subscribe first. Agencies wanting to use the service need to contact us to get set up.
Agencies can also use the online system to refer children to the website and/or the newspaper.
More about Be My Parent...
Quick links 
- Read our feature articles all about adoption or permanent fostering
- New to Be My Parent? Not sure how some things work? Try our FAQs
- How to make an enquiry about a child in Be My Parent
- Is adoption or permanent fostering for you? Try our quiz or read our adoption and fostering FAQs
- Agencies: Download our referral forms:
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electronic format (2.9 MB)
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