Adopted people deserve lifetime support for the impact of early childhood experiences. We have always worked with adopted people – now we want to do more. We want to increase our work with adopted people to improve the policies and practices that affect the adoption community. We also want to help them access the support they need - many adopted people have ongoing support needs resulting from health conditions and from their early childhood experiences. We also want to provide them with a community who ‘get them’. Many people who are in some way touched by adoption benefit from connecting with others with similar experiences. We want to connect adopted people with people like them.
If you need immediate help or support, contact our helpline:
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Join our community - offering support, advice, friendship & resources to people touched by adoption throughout the UK. Read more
Banter Project funded by Awards for All - Opportunities for 14-25 year olds who are adopted to meet for social activities in Northern Ireland Read more
Chance to Thrive is our new UK-wide youth programme. Young people are at the heart of what we do and we continue to develop this service with the involvement and influence of our evolving community. Read more
Connected is the name of our Children and Young People Service in Wales. Read more
FASD Hub UK provide a support service for adults with FASD, adoptive and biological parents, foster carers, kinship carers and step parents across Scotland, and the professionals who work with and support these families. Read more
Adoption UK now has an in-house therapeutic service for children, families and social workers. Read more
The #E Project was launched in summer 2021 to engage with and empower people who have been adopted, live in kinship care, or have FASD. Read more
As part of our aim to improve lifelong support for people who have been adopted, we are building an online directory which lists organisations and individuals who provide support and services to adoptees living in the UK. Read more