Welcome to Adoption UK

 

Adoption UK is a national charity run by and for adopters, providing self-help information, advice, support and training on all aspects of adoption and adoptive parenting. 

We work with parents and practitioners to make adoptions succeed, promoting loving and supportive family relationships within adoptive families.

 

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Message Boards

"Do you show that you're annoyed or do you hide it?"

"Finding it difficult to know which agency to choose"

Bruce Perry

World renowned trauma expert Dr Bruce Perry comes to Adoption UK in Northern Ireland

Children Who Wait

Photos, profiles and much more! Visit our family finding pages to learn about children waiting for adoption


Special Feature
Building the foundations: tips for things to do in the early days of placement

Training

Because of their early experiences of trauma, loss and multiple changes of placement adopted children often need sensitive and skillful parenting.


Online Shop
Check out our fantasic new range of life story books in the Adoption UK Online Shop

Poetry

Pick up a pen and put it into words - enter the Online Community Poetry Competition!


News Highlights

Great new books available
Date: 21 Jan 2010
Bruce Perry at Adoption UK
Date: 10 Feb 2010
Media Centre

Find out more about our work, download the latest press releases and much more


Blogs

Getting ready for launch
Date: Mar 5 2010 3:49PM
The testing phase for the new website was fraught but very positive, and now we're just making the final changes before we're ready to launch next week.
Changing the way schools educate children
Date: Mar 4 2010 11:57AM
Raising the profile of adoption issues can be challenging at a time when there are so many is to address. That’s why I’m really pleased with the end result of a recent film project – Trauma in the Classroom: Learning the lessons for abused and neglected children.
Open to testers!
Date: Feb 23 2010 3:07PM
Finally after months of waiting it looks like we are ready to welcome our testers to the new Adoption UK Online Community! This is a big step on what has been a really long road...