Today's Child

Photograph of Bethan and Ellie

BETHAN 6 years ELLIE 6 years

are twin sisters with individual personalities who are very close. They both work hard at school and enjoy different after school clubs. Bethan likes animals, particularly elephants! Ellie is outgoing and enjoys all school activities. Their foster carer says the girls are very helpful and caring, and a joy to be around. Needing: adoption

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Welcome to Be My Parent

We are an adoption and fostering service for children in the UK, run by the British Association for Adoption & Fostering (BAAF), with a family-finding website and monthly newspaper with feature articles.

To use this 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.

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