Amid the troubling stories of faith-based fostering and adoption agencies being shut down by unfair sexual orientation laws, there is a possible light on the horizon.
Cornerstone is an independent fostering agency that is working towards registering as a full adoption agency. It will be the UK’s ‘only evangelical agency operating in the country’, according to Robin Singleton, Cornerstone’s chair of trustees.
From fostering to adoption
Some children in local authority care wait years for a family to offer a permanent home, if it happens at all. The problem is most pronounced for so-called ‘hard-to-place’ children who may have severe physical disabilities or behavioural difficulties. They may never find a permanent home, particularly if they are over ten years old, given the preference for families to adopt younger children.
