Ceredigion County Council website

There are 56 LGBTQ+ households in Wales, an increase of 30% compared with 2024. In Ceredigion, LGBTQ+ foster carers looked after seven children in 2025.

This LGBTQ+ Adoption and Fostering Week, starting 02 March, Foster Wales Ceredigion is urging LGBTQ+ people to consider making enquiries to become foster carers and change lives in 2026.

In Ceredigion there are currently 138 of children 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.

Councillor Alun Williams, Deputy Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Through Age Wellbeing, said: “It is really encouraging to see such a significant rise in the number of LGBTQ+ fostering households in Wales. Here in Ceredigion, we are proud of our LGBTQ+ foster carers who provide loving, understanding and secure homes for our children and young people. Their lived experience, resilience and compassion make a real and lasting difference every single day."

Suzanne Griffiths, Director of the National Adoption Service for Wales and Foster Wales, added: “Foster 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.

With 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.”

You can follow LGBTQ+ Adoption & Fostering Week online and through X (@lgbtadoptfoster) and Facebook (@newfamilysocial).