**UPDATE OCTOBER 2021**

Due to successful recruitment over the last six months, the Concurrent Planning Service is unable to accept any more additional enquiries from individuals or families forward at this current time so we have postponed our online information events until early 2022. This is subject to change at any time over the coming months. If you do wish to go on a waiting list for our service, please contact us via email at: info@concurrentplanning.org and we will be in touch with you again in January 2022, or earlier if the position changes. Thank you so much for your interest in the Concurrent Planning Service.

Join one of our online Adopting with Concurrent Planning information event to find out more about this route to adoption.

About this Event

In line with the latest Government guidance on Covid-19 and to ensure the well-being of attendees and our team, we have replaced our usual Adopting with Concurrent Planning information evenings with online events. The events are open to anyone who lives in the North West of England wanting to find out more about our service.

Adopting with Concurrent Planning is a service for babies and young children who enter care and are likely to need adoption, but who also still have a small chance of being reunited with their birth family. Our carers are dually approved as both foster carers and adopters. This means that carers will initially perform the role of foster carer while the courts decide whether or not a child can return to his/her birth family. During this time the child will need to see their birth family regularly and carers will need to bring the child or children to a contact centre so they can see their parents.

The event will be run by our Adopting with Concurrent Planning practitioners and we will share a presentation with you, chat through how concurrent planning works and give you a chance to ask questions.