Today's Child
MELISSA 11 years
is a very polite child with a bubbly personality who takes pride in her appearance. She likes designing clothes, playing board games and riding her bike. Melissa is healthy and her current favourite food is curry. She loves school, where she is very popular and, with support, has made good progress. 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 website and monthly newspaper with feature articles.
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.
We are currently in the process of updating our information due to recent changes in legislation in Scotland. If you have a specific query in the meantime, please contact BAAF Scotland.
More about Be My Parent...
Quick links 
- 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
- Read our feature articles on adoption and permanent fostering
- 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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