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Support and community group links
NORCAP
National Organisation for the Counselling of Adoptees and Parents. Offers support, counselling and intermediary service for tracing relatives.
Department for Education and Skills
The Department for Education and Skills was established with the purpose of creating opportunity, releasing potential and achieving excellence for all.
Family Rights Group
Providing advice and support for families whose children are involved with social services and developing and promoting services that help secure the best possible futures for children and families.
Rejected Adoptee Group
A sub-group of Norcap aimed at those who have had unsuccessful attempts and reunion.
Post Adoption Centre
Offers counselling and discussion support groups for adoptees, birth and adoptive parents, and those with adoption-related concerns. No tracing service.
Adoption UK
Supporting adoptive families before, during and after adoption.
Keys Attachment Centre
A centre that specialises in helping children suffering from attachment disorder.
Mothers of Abused Children
Tel: 0169 733 1432 after 6.30pm
Support group based in Cumbria: Provides telephone counselling for victims, parents and people who have been abused in the past.
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.
NSPCC
Helpline for people concerned about a child at risk of abuse, including children themselves. Offers counselling, information and advice about the care of children, legal issues and physical abuse, neglect and emotional abuse.
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.
The Children's Society
National charity that aims to support children and families.
Barnardo's
Barnardo's helps the most vulnerable children and young people transform their lives and fulfil their potential.
After Adoption
Independent advice, helpline, information, face-to-face counselling and groupwork and support to anyone whose life has been affected by adoption.
Please Miss
Please Miss is a site for post-adoptive parents giving practical advice on schooling, etc.
National Youth Advocacy Service
NYAS offers advice, information, support and representation to any child or young person who wants to have their wishes and feelings taken into account when decisions are made about them. NYAS is a safety net for children and young people who have nowhere else to turn.
The Families' House
The Families' House vision is to improve the quality of life of vulnerable children and their families in Norfolk by meeting their specific needs.
Manx Churches Adoption and Welfare Society
Support organisation for adoptees, birth and adoptive parents on the Isle of Man. Offers advice on tracing.
Barnados Scottish Adoption Advice Service
(West of Scotland only)
16 Sandyford Place
Glasgow
G3 7NB
Advice Line: 0141 339 0772 (Mon, Tue, Thurs, Fri 9.30am-5pm, Wed 9.30am-7pm)
Support organisation offering counselling and information for adoptees, birth and adoptive families.
Family Care Adoption Counselling Centre
21 Castle Street
Edinburgh
EH2 3DN
0131 225 6441 (Mon-Fri 9.30am-4.30pm)
Support organisation offering counselling and information for adoptees, birth and adoptive families. Holds the adoption contact register for Scotland. Also operates Scotland's adoption contact register, Birthlink (same address and tel no). This is a confidential central point of contact for all those who have been involved in the adoption process. Provides counselling and information.
Scottish Adoption Association
(East of Scotland only)
Support organisation for adoptees, birth and adoptive parents.
After Adoption Wales
7 Neville Street
Riverside
Cardiff
CF11 6LP(temporary address)
Wales
Helpline: 02920 575711
Email: aadoption@aol.com
Independent advice, helpline, information, face-to-face counselling and groupwork and support to anyone whose life has been affected by adoption. Also training for professionals working in the adoption and post-adoption field. Staffed by a team of professional counsellors and fully trained volunteers, many of whom have first-hand experience of adoption. Offers Welsh speaking service by appointment only.
Adoption Board
Shelbourne House
Shelbourne Road
Dublin 4
Republic of Ireland
00353 1 6671392
Holds records of all adoptions in Eire.
Barnardo's Adoption Advice Service, Republic of Ireland
Advisory Centre for Education
Helpline for parents, teachers and governors offering advice, support, referrals on truancy, special educational needs, exclusion from school, admissions and bullying.
The Beehive
0870 240 3593
A community Internet publishing network to enable non-profit groups to set up a website for free.
Childalert
A commercial website aimed at anyone who has responsibility for the safety of children. Its purpose is to raise awareness of hazards to children in the home and has an ask-an-expert section.
movin-on-towards-adoption
Unsuccessful IVF? - Or just Thinking about adoption? Want to meet others in the same situation where experience and support is on offer?
MOTA welcomes ANYONE who has either had Infertility treatment and is thinking about adoption as a way forward, or ANYONE who is simply just thinking about adoption as an option and has not had infertility treatment.
They also run a weekly group chat, private to members only, which can be very useful if you have a question to ask.
ACAL (Association of Child Abuse Lawyers)
This group is mainly aimed at giving practical support for lawyers and other professionals working for adults and children who have been abused but could be useful if you need to find a good child abuse lawyer.
Voices from Care Cymru
Voices From Care (Cymru) is a user led organisation, supporting children and young people who are or have been in the looked after system in Wales.
AFAA (Association for Families who have Adopted from Abroad)
Registered charity run by volunteers, comprising of people contemplating adopting from abroad and families who have adopted from abroad. Also a number of local social services and voluntary adoption agencies are members. They run seminars and produce publications on adoption issues. A full publications list is available on their website.
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Many books available relating to adoption, fostering, help, research and support.
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!
Indibooks
Indibooks is run by a social worker, to provide a resource for social work and social care students, social workers and foster carers by offering a wide range of affordable, used books and information to help them study or do their job.
The Transnational and Transracial Adoption Group
The Transnational and Transracial Adoption Group was founded and is co-ordinated by and for transnational and transracial adoptees. TTAG aims to offer support and provide a collective national voice to adoptees adopted into families whose racial and cultural heritage is different from theirs.
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