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Adoption Contact Register
- Puts adopted people and their birth relatives in touch with each other if that is what they both wish.
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Adoption Facts
- A site dedicated to offering facts about adoption with legal information, financial details and links to adoption agencies.
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Adoption Information Line
- Presents the profile and features of children ready for adoption and supplies information on adoption basics and laws.
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Adoption Interlink UK
- Established for married couples and single people considering adoption. Also provides necessary information regarding adoption agencies.
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Adoption Support
- Profiles this charity and its helpline and counselling and intermediary services. Includes newsletters and information on the charity's research services.
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Adoption UK
- Supports adoptive families before, during and after adoption. Includes reports, advice, news, publications list and message board.
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Adoption-net
- Offers information and advice on both adoption and fostering for UK families. Includes Q&A, news archive and glossary of terms.
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After Adoption
- Provides individual, group and family support for all those affected by adoption in the UK. Includes details of the organisation's achievements and services, plus an active forum and sections for young people and for professionals.
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After Adoption Yorkshire
- Details the support, counselling and training offered by this organisation to anyone in the Yorkshire area affected by adoption.
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Be My Parent
- A family-finding service for adoption and fostering children in the UK; includes information for professionals, resources for families at all stages of the process, and details of their monthly newspaper.
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British Association for Adoption and Fostering
- Contains information on the legislation and procedures concerning adoption and fostering. Includes database of adoption and fostering agencies.
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Could You Foster?
- Offers an introduction to fostering and helps families decide whether fostering might be something they could do.
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DirectGov: Adoption
- Official government pages about adoption and the adoption process.
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Famous Adoptees
- Biographical directory of well-known and prominent people who came from foster homes or were adopted.
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Foster Care Associates (FCA)
- UK wide fostering organization providing high quality foster placements to children and young people at a local level.
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The Foster Care Co-operative
- A registered not-for-profit co-operative that aims to increase the total number of foster homes by recruiting and training new foster carers. Includes details of services offered for children and carers, and their support.
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Fostering Information Line
- Information and resources on foster care and fostering children in the UK.
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The Fostering Network
- Charity working with everyone involved in fostering and foster care. Presents publications list plus details of campaigns and training and advice services, with a section for anyone thinking of fostering.
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Fostering Support Ltd
- Supports foster carers about whom an allegation has been made. Includes FAQ, company credentials and details of how they work.
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Intercountry Adoption Centre
- Offers information on this organisation's services for adopting families, adopted adults and professionals. Includes publications list and details of an advice line and fundraising efforts.
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Letterbox Club
- Works to improve the educational outlook for children aged 7-11 in foster families by providing them with a parcel of educational materials once every month for six months. Includes sign up details and FAQ.
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LGBT Adopting and Fostering Week
- A national campaign to promote and support adoption and fostering by LGBT couples and single people; includes events, news, and resources.
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National Adoption Week
- An annual campaign to promote adoption, both in the search for people prepared to adopt and to support people wanting to find out about their own adoption or about a child they put up for adoption.
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National Fostering Agency
- Provides information for local authorities as well as for both existing and prospective foster families.
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Natural Parents Network
- Charity offering support to birth families involved in adoption. Includes message board.
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New Family Social
- Works to support LGBT adopters, foster carers and their children throughout the UK; includes resources, a list of subscribing adoption and fostering agencies, news, and contacts.
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Norcap
- Supports adults affected by adoption, particularly those wishing to trace their birth families. Provides a contact register plus a downloadable action pack with advice on safe and effective tracing of relatives.
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North East Post Adoption Service
- Details this organisations services to adopted adults, birth relatives and adoptive parents, including counselling, support and tracing services. Includes FAQ.
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OASIS - Overseas Adoption and Support Information Service
- A support group for families at all stages of the inter-country adoption process; with details of membership, events, and a FAQ.
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The Post-Adoption Centre
- Provides counselling and therapeutic support to all parties in the adoption process. Offers details of services available, plus information on training for adoptive parents, birth parents and professionals.
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The Scottish Adoption Association
- Offers information, counselling and support to anyone in Scotland who has adopted, has been adopted or is interested in adoption. Includes annual report.
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Simply Fostering
- Foster carer recruitment, advice and information.
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TALKadoption
- Free national helpline for young people under 26 who want to talk about anything to do with adoption.
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