You may be in employment, at home with caring responsibilities or may be on state benefits.
Whatever your position, you will need to be able to demonstrate that you can financially support yourself and the basic needs of a child placed with you both now and, as far as is foreseeable, until the child’s adulthood.
We will help you to get all the benefits to which you are entitled and in exceptional circumstances financial assistance may be available where it is considered that an adoption would not otherwise be possible for the child.
You can find more information on adoption pay and leave entitlement on the Government's GOV.UK website [external website].