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Adoption links
General Register Office
Details of how to apply for original birth records.
Department for Education and Skills' Adoption website
This site is intended for anyone involved or interested in adoption and relates to adoption in England. The laws governing adoption in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are very similar so this site will help you too if you are thinking of adopting in those countries.
Adoption Centres
Court addresses for Adoption Centres.
Court Service
Contains advice on how the courts handle adoption, including overseas adoption.
NORCAP
National Organisation for the Counselling of Adoptees and Parents. Offers support, counselling and intermediary service for tracing relatives.
Tiger (Tailored Interactive Guidance on Employment Rights) website
This site deals with adoption and paternity adoption leave and pay when you are adopting a child from the UK.
Department of Trade and Industry
Details about maternity and paternity leave for adoptive parents.
BAAF (British Association for Adoption and Fostering)
BAAF is the leading UK charity working for children separated from their birth families, and all those concerned with adoption, fostering and child care.
The Children's Society
National charity that aims to support children and families.
Adoption UK
Supporting adoptive families before, during and after adoption.
NSPCC
Helpline for people concerned about a child at risk of abuse, including children themselves.
NCH Adoption Information
One of the UK's leading children's charities.
Parents for Children
Support organisation for children to find permanent families through fostering or adoption whose local authorities find them difficult to place. Offers respite and short term fostering. Counselling and information service.
Lesbian and Gay Foster and Adoptive Parents' Network
Northern Support Group,
PO Box 2078,
S24 YQ
Adoption Information
Fact Expert offers adoption tips and suggestions as well as articles on various aspects of adoption.
The Childlink Adoption Society
Small, friendly voluntary adoption society with lots of experience working with adopters and successfully placing children for adoption. Deals with pre and post adoption work for people adopted through them. Offers a counselling service but no tracing service.
Forever Family
Adoption website for adoption and foster families - which includes over 45 different card designs, adoption announcements, gifts, keepsakes and partywear for Adoption Day!
Paper Penguins
Personalised adoption cards, ranging from adoption announcements to adoption day cards.
Heartfelt Ceremonies
Celebrate your wonder-filled addition with your family and friends by holding a Child Welcoming or Baby Naming Ceremony. Heartfelt Ceremonies provides you with as much help and guidance as you wish and together creates a professional ceremony which is performed with heartfelt sincerity. Email: info@heartfelt-ceremonies.co.uk
SASFA Forces Help
Adoption information for people in the Forces.
Adoption Greeting Cards, Adoption Ecards From 123Greetings.com
Personalised adoption e-cards - send these warm, touching, well-animated e-cards to congratulate the lucky parents.
Adoption-4u.com
A collection of newsletters, links and resources on adoption.
North London Adoption Consortium
The North London Adoption Consortium is a partnership of five local authority adoption agencies; Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington and two voluntary adoption agencies; Parents for Children and Norwood who have chosen to work together to provide the very best possible service for children waiting to be adopted and for those wanting to adopt. Their primary aim is to meet the needs of children waiting to be adopted. In finding the most suitable and loving homes for children they provide a professional and complete service for people who are hoping to adopt.
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