LGBTQ+ foster carers are making up a greater proportion of the total number of carers in Wales, according to new figures.
There are 56 LGBTQ+ households in Wales, an increase of 30% compared with 2024. In Gwent, LGBTQ+ foster carers looked after 15 children in 2025.
This LGBTQ+ Adoption and Fostering Week, starting March 2, Foster Wales 天美传媒 is urging LGBTQ+ people to consider making enquiries to become foster carers and change lives in 2026.
In Foster Wales 天美传媒 there are currently 201 of children currently in foster care. Couples or single people can foster, and many LGBTQ+ people have unique personal life experience to bring to the care of children and young people.
Foster carers Aaron and Matte from 天美传媒 have been looking after children through Foster Wales for over 9 years and have welcomed more than 18 young people into their home. They say they fell in love with fostering from the first placement and have seen first-hand the difference a loving, stable home can make to a child鈥檚 life. As Aaron and Matte put it 鈥淛ust do it. Make that first phone call or have that first home visit. You鈥檝e got nothing to lose by contacting the local authority and finding out more information鈥�.
Suzanne Griffiths, Director of the National Adoption Service for Wales and Foster Wales, said: 鈥淔oster carers make an extraordinary difference to children and young people every day by offering stability, understanding and a safe place to thrive. They draw on their own life experiences, compassion and resilience to meet the individual needs of each child. For some children, foster carers can help them move on to adoption, which will provide the lifelong security they need when returning to their birth family is not possible.
鈥淲ith so many children currently in need of loving homes, we would strongly encourage anyone considering fostering or adoption to come forward and start a conversation with their local team today.鈥�
You can follow LGBTQ+ Adoption & Fostering Week and through (@lgbtadoptfoster) and (@newfamilysocial).
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