About Adoption

Beginning your journey

If you’re thinking of adopting, the place to start is to find an adoption agency. Read more

The process

The main stages of the adoption process explained. Read more

What is adoption?

Adoption is the legal process by which a child or a group of siblings become full, permanent and legal members of their new family. Read more

Who can adopt?

Adoption is open to more people than you might think. Read more

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After School Restraint Collapse

What is after school restraint collapse and how can you support your child through it? Our Education Policy Advisor, Rebecca Brooks explains.

You Can Adopt

#YouCanAdopt – a campaign to find adopters for the thousands children in England waiting to be adopted.

The Happy Ever After Conundrum

With the launch of the #YouCanAdopt campaign, our CEO Sue Armstrong-Brown, explains why recruiting adopters needs to be undertaken with the bigger picture in full view.

AFA Scotland and Adoption UK Scotland were again responsible for organising Adoption Week running from Monday 18th to Saturday 22nd November. The programme for the week once again proved to be a successful way of raising the profile of adoption across the country.

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The myth of ‘catching up’ after Covid-19

When I was in secondary school, my parents requested permission to remove me from school during term time for a week to go on a holiday of a lifetime. The school reluctantly agreed, on the condition that I would work hard to ‘catch up’ the work that I missed.