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⚡WBAS Annual Life Journey Story Awards⚡
January 20, 2023We held our annual Life Journey Story Awards WBAS HQ in December. The judging panel consisted of Swansea Council Child and Family Head of Service Julie Davies, Neath Port Talbot [...]
WBAS team up with the Bridgend Ravens RFC and Penybont FC!
March 04, 2022Passionate to not only recruit more adopters from Bridgend, but to support anyone affected by adoption in the county; whilst also supporting grass roots sports and community, WBAS are delighted [...]
Life Journey Framework Awards 2021
December 11, 2021Life Journey Framework stories provide some of most important pieces of a child’s adoption picture. Providing a clear, colourful narrative and illustration of the child’s history and birth family, putting [...]Meet our children and young people’s go to, errrm, people!
November 05, 2021If you and your family have recently attended and had fun at one of the many Western Bay events during 2021 then you may have met our Donna and Josie. [...]Audrey – Life Journey Stories
September 14, 2021Audrey is keen and engaging when we meet on video, and most of all passionate: passionate to share how she has helped her child maintain his sense of identity during [...]Adopting for the third time with Dan. From zero to siblings…to three!
August 03, 2021“Are you mad?” The question asked when we first told people we’d decided to adopt a third child. We shrugged it off and laughed. But gradually, as the question became [...]
No turning back – Adopting siblings with Dan Part 2
July 30, 2021There from the start Yesterday, our family stood in the doorway and waved goodbye to our children’s social worker, Claire, for the very last time. She had been with them [...]Adopting Siblings with Dan Part 1
July 26, 2021“We originally came through a different agency closer to us,” answers Dan when I ask why they chose Western Bay as their adoption service. “But we were eventually matched with [...]The challenges of adoption
May 14, 2021We last checked in with Lee and Kelly in October, just as they had been approved as adopters. Now 8 months down the line they have completed their adoption process [...]Life Journey Framework Superstars!
April 30, 2021We’ve been ‘beary’ busy over the last few weeks recognising and celebrating some outstanding work made by professionals, carers and parents in children’s life journey work. An adoptive child’s Life [...]The world of a family finder
March 16, 2021World Social Workers Day “It’s always kinda been my calling”, says Saj when asked why she works for Western Bay as a Family Finding Social Worker. “I was a supervising [...]Lockdown Love Story – Chapter 3
March 04, 2021Rob, Rich, Seb and Anna* “It was a bit of a tumultuous time for our eldest Sebastian when we had our little girl, explains Rob. “He had just come [...]Lockdown Love Stories Chapter 2
February 12, 2021Martin, Josh and Jack* “We’re settling in ok, it’s been about 5 months since initial introductions and so much has changed, he’s a right little character. “Terrible two’s here [...]Lockdown Love Stories Chapter 1
January 29, 20212020 (and so far this year too) has been challenging for us all. As a service we’ve adapted, knuckled down and worked hard to deal with the massive increase in [...]Our Family – Video Series
October 30, 2020Western Bay is built entirely on its staff, children and of course its adopters. You are everything that we stand for and support. We are so proud of who you [...]New Year, new starts…then a remarkable journey
October 16, 2020The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on all of our lives this year, from holidays cancelled to shopping with a mask to toilet roll shortages. Imagine trying to [...]National Adoption Week 2020!
October 15, 2020We are in the midst of National Adoption Week and so far we have already seen some firsts for adoption in Wales. There’s been the launch of Wales’ first adoption [...]Wales comes out top in UK wide adoption survey, but more support still needed for vulnerable children, report finds
October 05, 2020Alongside identifying an improving picture in many respects there is still evidence that the lives of some of the UK’s most vulnerable children are being affected by missed opportunities to [...]Western Bay’s Lockdown Diaries Part 3
August 14, 2020Following on from last weeks humorous and personal account of lockdown life by our adopter Karina Baldwin*, here’s the next instalment in our #LockdownDiary series. Rhian Howes 40, works in [...]Western Bay’s Lockdown Diaries
July 31, 2020We started the series with a reflection from the start of lockdown from our newly appointed psychologist Hillary Clarke*. Next up we have our single person adopter Karina’s humorous and [...]
