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    • ⚡WBAS Annual Life Journey Story Awards⚡
      January 20, 2023
      We 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 [...]
      Stuart Goddard
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    • WBAS team up with the Bridgend Ravens RFC and Penybont FC!
      March 04, 2022
      Passionate 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 [...]
      Stuart Goddard
      • Adoption Blog, 
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    • Life Journey Framework Awards 2021
      December 11, 2021
       Life 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 [...]
      Stuart Goddard
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    • Meet our children and young people’s go to, errrm, people!
      November 05, 2021
      If 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. [...]
      Stuart Goddard
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    • Audrey – Life Journey Stories
      September 14, 2021
      Audrey 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 [...]
      Stuart Goddard
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    • 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 [...]
      Stuart Goddard
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    • No turning back – Adopting siblings with Dan Part 2
      July 30, 2021
      There 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 [...]
      Stuart Goddard
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    • 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 [...]
      Stuart Goddard
      • Adoption Blog, 
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    • The challenges of adoption
      May 14, 2021
      We 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 [...]
      Stuart Goddard
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    • Life Journey Framework Superstars!
      April 30, 2021
      We’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 [...]
      Stuart Goddard
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    • The world of a family finder
      March 16, 2021
      World 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 [...]
      Stuart Goddard
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    • Lockdown Love Story – Chapter 3
      March 04, 2021
      Rob, 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 [...]
      Stuart Goddard
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    • Lockdown Love Stories Chapter 2
      February 12, 2021
      Martin, 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 [...]
      Stuart Goddard
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    • Lockdown Love Stories Chapter 1
      January 29, 2021
      2020 (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 [...]
      Stuart Goddard
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    • Our Family – Video Series
      October 30, 2020
      Western 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 [...]
      Stuart Goddard
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    • New Year, new starts…then a remarkable journey
      October 16, 2020
      The 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 [...]
      Stuart Goddard
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    • National Adoption Week 2020!
      October 15, 2020
      We 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 [...]
      Stuart Goddard
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    • Wales comes out top in UK wide adoption survey, but more support still needed for vulnerable children, report finds
      October 05, 2020
      Alongside 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 [...]
      Stuart Goddard
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    • Western Bay’s Lockdown Diaries Part 3
      August 14, 2020
      Following 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 [...]
      Stuart Goddard
      • Adoption Blog, 
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    • Western Bay’s Lockdown Diaries
      July 31, 2020
      We 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 [...]
      Stuart Goddard
      • Adoption Blog, 
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Western Bay Adoption is where you will find information about taking the first steps towards becoming an adoptive parent and what this could mean for you and your family.
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If you're thinking about adoption then we would love to help.

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Western Bay Adoption Service
Civic Centre
Port Talbot
SA13 1PJ

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