Be My Family provides a national adoption recruitment and matching service. We offer a new learning, exchange and support programme to enable agencies to share best practice and coordinate across boundaries to maximise recruitment and placements for children.
Membership
Membership provides a flexible modular approach to enable members to meet their specific needs and achieve shared benefit. All members may access mystery shopping up to once a year and attendance at national forums and receive best practice guidance for recruitment and matching via the network leadership group.
1. Recruitment support
- Images (royalty free) – unlimited access
- Creation of adverts for digital campaign
- National information tailored for local purposes e.g. passport and step-by-step guides
- National Adoption Week campaign coordination
- Access to social media champions training
- Media training/guidance
- VAA Big Adoption Day coordination
- Templates for planning
- Discount individual packages of £50 off any individual package
2. Professional development
- Places at customer service training/workshops
- Review of information pack for prospective adopter/foster carers against standards
- Marketing and recruitment network days analysing trends and best practice results and practical planning
3. Maximising matching
- Profile writing workshop
- Specialist search service (child led searching for up to 10 children)
- Matching practice workshop e.g. siblings
- Free attendance at Exchange Days for adopters for all agencies
- Discount of £50 on each Exchange Day or bespoke family finding review
- Matching network days analysing trends, best practice results and practical planning
- Preparation for court – making the case
Annual cost
| Number of yearly placements | Places on training | Cost |
| 0-30 | 1 | £295 |
| 31-60 | 2 | £395 |
| 61-100 | 3 | £495 |
| 100+ | 4 | £595 |
Individual packages (available separately)
| Matching offer |
| Stand at National Exchange Day – £200 |
| Stand at Targeted Exchange Day – £200 |
| Bespoke family finding for individual children – £300 |
| Marketing and publicity for individual children needing a family – £150 |
| Individual places at workshop – £100 |
| Recruitment offer |
| Royalty free images – £120 subscription per annum |
| Customer Services training – £850 |
| Mystery Shopping – £350 |
| Adopter/foster care champions training – £450 |
| Podcast production – £450 |
Bespoke packages
| Matching offer |
| Commissioned exchange day – £2,000 |
| Commissioned Adoption Activity Day – £10-12,000 |
| Commissioned Fostering Activity Day – £10,000 |
| Recruitment offer |
| Digital recruitment campaign – (varies depending on need £3,500 – £10,000) |
| Mystery shopping and customer care training (combined package) – £1995 plus VAT) |
| Initial enquiries handling with dedicated number, guaranteed callback service and performance report (price upon request) |
| Recruitment and marketing front door campaign service: service campaign design, handling enquiries, monitoring, GDPR compliance (price upon request) |