Room for one more?

Rhiannon Goulding shares her family’s story of expanding via fostering and adoption

I had always known I wanted to foster or adopt – right from when I was still at school. As soon as I became aware of how many children needed a foster family, I wanted to be able to give someone a home.

At first things didn’t work out like that: I married someone who had two girls of his own, and then we had two more girls together. We were already a blended family. But then one day we went to the cinema, and on the back of the cinema ticket was an advert for fostering. I rang them on the Friday, and was invited to a training day on the Monday!