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Once an Adoption Order is in place, our Adoption Support Team offers ongoing help tailored to each family’s needs. ... We walk alongside families every step of the way, because every child deserves to belong, and every family deserves support.

Adoption and fostering

Andover Library

Opening times, location, facilities, services and events at Andover Library.

Hampshire Hive

Regular support group meetings for Hive Families. One-to-one support. Family events. ... Being part of a hive feels like an extended family who are all there to help and support where we can.

Useful resources

Links and other resources

Community Buddy Volunteer

Community buddies enable children and young people with a disability to access the community or support them to take part in activities or groups of their choosing within the local community

Volunteering

SfYC Portage Support

Portage is a home visiting educational service for families with children from nine months old to statutory school age, who have additional needs and meet the Portage referral criteria

Leigh Park Library

Opening times, location, facilities, services and events at Leigh Park Library.

Hampshire Safeguarding Children Partnership and Children’s Trust thresholds chart

Clearly defined thresholds and a range of effective, evidence-based services in place to address assessed needs

County Councillor grants

Age Concern, Mencap, Home-Start. British Legion and service charities. School Parent/Teacher Associations (PTAs). ... Deciding which applications to support. Informing applicants of the outcome. Members must consider:.

Grants

Adoption assessment process

Your adoption journey begins here

Adoption and fostering

Information for social workers

Guidance for social workers seeking transport for looked-after children

School transport

What to do if you are being bullied or see someone being bullied

What to do if you are being bullied or see someone being bullied

Concerns about a child Child protection and safeguarding

Fareham Library

Opening times, location, facilities, services and events at Fareham Library

Concerns with your child's early development

Concerns with your child's early development and how to get support. This support may be referred to as special educational needs and disability (SEND) or additional needs.

Hampshire Teenage Pregnancy

Information and Support

Sexual health

Chineham Library

Opening times, location, facilities, services and events at Chineham Library.

The Hampshire Carers Support Service

The Hampshire Carers Support Service. The service provides one-to-one support over the phone, online or face-to-face with a trained carer support worker or dementia adviser

Adult social care

Eastleigh Library

Opening times, location, facilities, services and events at Eastleigh Library

Keren’s fostering story

Keren’s story

Elspeth – A Partnership Built on Trust

Elspeth, a paediatric occupational therapist and experienced carer, has been fostering with Hampshire County Council Fostering Service since 2023 as a home-from-home carer.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I foster if I’m single? Absolutely – we welcome prospective foster carers from a variety of diverse family backgrounds and current marital status. ... Foster carers can also enter skills pathways in acknowledgement of their experience and support

Hythe Library

Opening times, location, facilities, services and events at Hythe Library.

Smokefree youth

Smokefree Hampshire is a free, confidential stop smoking service that offers tailored support to help anyone in Hampshire over the age of 12. ... The service offers personalised support and nicotine replacement therapy such as nicotine gums and patches.

Advice for UK service families

School admissions advice for children of UK service families

Admissions and school places

Tadley Library

Opening times, location, facilities, services and events at Tadley Library