1. Choosing a school Expand Blog: Choosing Your Child’s School This article looks at some of the questions you might ask when looking at new schools for your adopted child. Read the blog
1. General resources and information Expand Booklet: Meeting the Needs of Adopted and Permanently Placed Children This booklet covers essential information on education in England from early years to the end of secondary school, including several case studies and guidance on effective uses of Pupil Premium Plus.Download booklet Leaflet: Welcoming an Adopted Child This series of leaflets is ideal for printing out and passing on to education professionals working with adopted children. The simple two-page guides explain what adoption is, introduce the fundamentals of the impact of early life trauma, and suggest some helpful strategies to help children get off to the best start.Welcoming an Adopted Child to Your EYFS SettingWelcoming an Adopted Child to Your Primary SchoolWelcoming an Adopted Child to Your Secondary School Factsheet: Flexi-schooling Although relatively uncommon, flexi-schooling can be an effective alternative way to approach your child’s education. In this short guide we explore what flexi-schooling is and look at the legal position across the UK. Download factsheet Factsheet: Elective Home Education Home education is becoming an increasingly common choice among adoptive families. If you are looking for alternatives to school-based education, this short guide explains some things you will need to know before you embark on this family journey. Download factsheet Guidance: Principles of Excellence in Relationships Education Originally produced by Fastn and endorsed by Adoption UK, this guidance for schools outlines the underlying principles of effective relationships education which are being used to influence how relationships education is being delivered throughout England. Download Principles of Excellence in Relationships Education Download a reflective practice guide
1. Privacy Notices – Overview Information Expand About Us Adoption UK is a registered charitable company (Charity number 1160647; Company number 09454981) referred to variously throughout our Privacy Notices as ‘Adoption UK’, ‘<Service Name>’, Us’ and ‘We’. For the purposes of the data processing described in this statement, Adoption UK act as the Data Controller unless otherwise stated. Throughout our Privacy Notices, where we refer to ‘you’, if you engage with us on behalf of your family, we are referring to both you and your family. Our Commitment If you and/or your family use an Adoption UK service, you can be assured that we are committed to making sure that any information we hold about you will be collected, stored and used in accordance with The Data Protection Act 2018 and General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR). This means that we adhere to the data protection principles of only holding information about you that is relevant to our work with you, that we make sure the information that we hold is accurate, up to date, secure, and only kept for as long as we need it. Should you have any questions relating to this notice or our processing of personal data, please email our Data Protection Officer at [email protected] or contact us at Adoption UK, Vantage Business Park, Bloxham, Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX16 9UX.
1. What is adoption? Expand Adoption is the legal process by which a child or siblings who cannot be brought up within their birth family become full, permanent and legal members of their new family. Adopters become the child's legal parents with the same rights and responsibilities as if the child was born to them. Most adopted children have lived in foster care for part of their childhood. Most foster placements are with foster families rather than in foster homes. Time spent in foster care can range from days to several years, and many children have more than one foster placement before being placed for adoption. Children who are adopted tend to have better outcomes than children who remain in foster care or spend their childhoods in and out of care.
2. Adoption, Trauma, Attachment and Education Expand Video: Trauma in the School Setting Produced by Adoption UK Wales (but relevant across the UK) this five-minute video is about the importance of understanding adopted children and their needs in the education environment. The video was funded by the Welsh Government as part of an ongoing programme of work to raise the attainment of adopted children in school in Wales. (The video displays the old Adoption UK helpline number. For the new number, click here) Video: Trauma in the Classroom: Learning Lessons for Neglected and Abused Children Featuring author Louise Bomber as well as interviews with adopted young people and adoptive parents, this powerful five-minute video explores the difficulties that adopted children may encounter in an educational setting as a result of the separation, loss and trauma that they have experienced in their early lives. Blog: After-School Restraint Collapse If your child seems ‘fine’ all day in school but often melts down after the end of the school day, they may be experiencing ‘after-school restraint collapse’. This blog explains more about the phenomenon and offers some strategies and tips for supporting a smoother transition at the end of the day. Read the blog here
2. Services Privacy Notice Expand This Privacy Notice is for users of all Adoption UK services. This includes but is not limited to TESSA, Peer to Peer, Membership, Scotland FASD Service, Kinship Care Advisory Service Scotland and general community support services. There is a separate notice for: Fundraising, Public Affairs and Marketing Training and Consultancy Privacy NoticeEmployee, Volunteer and Contractor Privacy Notice Where we collect personal information from: We may collect information about you at a number of stages in your use of our service. Referral You may be referred to our service by a social worker or other support organisation that is providing services to you. Where they refer to us, they will usually ask for your consent to do so. As part of the referral, they may share with us your contact information and the reason for their referral. If you choose not to participate the referral information will be removed, otherwise it will be added to the information we collect about you as part of providing the service to you. Registration When you register with an Adoption UK service, we may record the basic information we need in order to be able to provide the service and/or contact you. This will include your name, where you live, information about why you are using an Adoption UK service and the work that we are doing with you. Data collected from you will be retained while you use our service and may be held for a number of years after you cease using the service for purposes of compliance with Adoption Support Regulations. During your Engagement with us Throughout your engagement with us, our service team will record information about the service provided to you, including case reporting, plans and reviews. We collect this information so that we can keep in touch with you during the course of the work we are doing with you, to work out how best we can help you, to record the work that we have done and to assess how that work has gone. This will help us to fully understand your needs, recommend actions and improve the services that we deliver to you. Data collected during service delivery will be maintained in your case file for a number of years after you cease using the service for compliance purposes. When you contact our helplines If you contact one of our helplines, the helpline team will collect information about your enquiry and the details of your call. If necessary and with your consent, they may then refer you to another service team to resolve your request. Calls will also be recorded for training and compliance purposes or to improve our services. If you make a complaint If you make a complaint about the services you have received or one of our service team, the details of the complaint will be recorded and processed to investigate and resolve the issue. Information will only be provided to members of the team with a need to know. What personal information do we record? The type of information (including personal information) that we collect and use and what we do with it will depend upon your relationship with us.We collect only the personal data that we require to provide you with services, fulfil contracts or keep in touch. The data we collect enables us to deliver services that are that are most appropriate to your needs. Should you choose not to divulge this information to us, it may affect our ability to provide the service to you. The data that we need to collect will vary, but may include: Your name Your contact details, including email, telephone number and postal address Your date of birth The details of your family Reason for Referral Photographs (Of group sessions and events) Healthcare Information Names of your child(ren)’s school and teacher(s) Employment information, Occupation Social Care History Ethnicity information Disability information Your religion Sexual Orientation Details needed to improve your experience such as dietary requirements or accessibility needs Special Categories of Data Due to the nature of the services we provide, some of the data we collect is sensitive.Information relating to Health, Ethnicity, Religion and Sexual Orientation are considered to be Special Categories of Data and we are required to take extra care when handling this information. We may need to process this data under the following conditions: With your explicit consent. Where it is necessary in substantial public interest in: Preventing and detecting unlawful acts. Ensuring equality of opportunity and treatment Provision of confidential counselling or support services Safeguarding of children and individuals at risk. Safeguarding of economic wellbeing of at-risk individuals Children and Young Person’s information Adoption UK is committed to protecting the privacy of the children and young people you provide us with information about, whether this be through our website or at fundraising events. Adoption UK requires the consent of a parent or guardian before anyone under 16 years of age participates in an event organised by us. Children aged under 13 must obtain the consent of a parent or guardian before providing any personal information. Who Will Have Access to Information About you? Your information will only be accessed by people who need to do so as part of their role. This could include: Staff working at the service that you use. Staff supporting the delivery of our services. Adoption UK senior managers (If there is a need to do so). Staff working for our partner organisations where we operate the service as part of a partnership. Our commissioners, on whose behalf we may be running the service you use. In some circumstances commissioners may be allowed to check files to make sure that we are providing you with the service that we should be. Regulators (such as OFSTED or Care Inspectorate Wales), who may review our work in order to ensure that we are doing a good job and keeping clear and accurate records. We will always respect your privacy, and will seek your permission before sharing your record with any other services that you are working with. In the following limited circumstances, we may also be obliged to share your information: If we believe you or somebody else could be at risk if we do not do so. If we are legally obliged to share your information, such as in response to a court order. How Do We Use Your Information? Adoption UK will only use your information in a fair and transparent manner and where we have a legal basis for doing so. To Keep in ContactIn order to provide the services that you have registered for, we will need to communicate with you to arrange meetings and visits and discuss aspects of your requirements. This communication may be via Mail, Email, Telephone or SMS. Legal Basis: Performance of Contract To send you newsletters and information you have requested. Where we provide an information service, we will send you the requested information. To tell you about events and other services that may be of interest to you -Adoption UK provide a range of support and advice services throughout the UK. If we feel that you may be interested in services for which you are not currently registered, we would like to send you this information. Legal basis: Legitimate Interests If we do so by email, we will ask for your consent. Legal Basis: Consent To provide the services you have agreed to. We will process your personal information in order to provide the services for which you have registered, this may include; providing support, information, social care or specific therapies. We will use the information to work out how best we can help you, to provide the best possible service to you, and to record the work that we have done and to assess how that work has gone. Legal Basis: Public Task / Legal Obligation / Legitimate Interests / Performance of Contract To refer you for services provided by other service providers. If, in the course of our work together, we think that there may be other services that would be of benefit to you we may suggest a referral to those service providers. We will discuss this with you and seek your consent before sharing your information with anyone else. Legal Basis: Consent To publicise the work that we do. Adoption UK would like to make people aware of the work that we do in the community, this enables us to provide services to more people. We may use anonymised case studies to tell people about our work. Legal Basis: Legitimate Interests To provide anonymous reports to our funders and commissioners. Many of our services are funded by other organisations, such as the local authority, government departments, the NHS or other charities. We may use anonymised data and statistics to report to them on the performance of our services. Sharing Data with Third-Parties We will never share your information with a third party who intends to use it for their own marketing purposes and there are very limited instances where we will share your personal data with a third party. These could include: If a third party provides a service to us, such as running an event on our behalf or providing an element of a contract for us, such as email distribution or postal mail distribution. For the administration of events. For example, an event venue may require the provision of the names of attendees in advance, for security purposes. Where there is a legal or regulatory requirement to disclose your personal information such as from HMRC or the courts, we have a genuine and real concern regarding a person’s well-being, or where disclosure is necessary for taxation and criminal investigation purposes. In order to prevent fraud and crime, we may perform due diligence checks to ensure we are not being abused, such as by fraudsters or criminals posing as genuine donors for example money laundering proceeds of crime and tax avoidance. We do these checks to help protect Adoption UK from abuse. Where does Adoption UK store your personal information? Wherever possible, we ensure that your personal data is kept in the UK. We minimise use of servers outside of the EEA and in some limited instances if we need to transfer your personal information to a third party for processing in countries that aren’t listed as ‘adequate’ by the European Commission we’ll only do so where we have appropriate contracts or other appropriate safeguards in place. By communicating electronically with us, you acknowledge and agree that your data may be processed in this way. How long will Adoption UK retain your personal information? We will only keep information about you for the length of time it is necessary to do so in order to engage with you in the way that you have requested and in accordance with our data protection legal requirements, our regulatory requirements as a registered adoption support agency, and tax and accounting rules. When your personal data is no longer needed, we will ensure that it is disposed of in a secure manner. If you would like us to delete any information we hold about you, please contact us using the details in the “Contact us” section and note the ‘Your Rights’ section below. Your Rights You have the following rights with respect to the data that we hold about you. Right to Access You have qualified rights to see the information we hold about you. If you would like to see the information that Adoption UK holds about you, please email The Data Protection Officer at [email protected] or write to us at the below address. We will then be able to arrange either for you to either look through your file with a member of staff, or for you to be sent a copy of the information. Can you see all of the information Adoption UK holds about you? In some circumstances, we may not be able to share the entire contents of your file with you. This could be if, for example, a doctor, has written to us in confidence. We would not be able to share such information with you unless the person who provided us with the information agreed to do so. We also may not be able to share information with you if we believe that it could seriously harm you to see it. In order to protect the privacy of others, we may not be able to share information about other people that appears in your file. Right to Rectification If the information we hold about you is incorrect or you would like Adoption UK to delete the information held about you. We would like to ensure that all the information we hold is accurate and up to date. If you believe that the information we hold about you is incorrect please first speak to a member of the service team who support you, they may be able to correct any inaccurate data. To make a formal request to correct or make any changes to the information, or for us to delete the information we hold about you, please email the Data Protection Officer at [email protected] or write to us at the below address. Each request will be dealt with on a case by case basis. Once you finished using an Adoption UK service Once you’ve finished using an Adoption UK service, your file will be closed. We will then archive your file and keep it in accordance with our data retention policy and legal and compliance requirements. We will not keep your file for longer than it is needed. Once your file is no longer required, it will be securely disposed of. You can request access to the file at any point prior to its destruction. In some circumstances, where Adoption UK are providing a service on behalf of another organisation, control over the retention and destruction of those fills will fall to that organisation and be dependent upon their own policies and procedures. If you are concerned about what is in your file or how it is stored If you are unhappy with any aspect of how your file is held, who sees it, or the contents of it, please contact the Data Protection Officer at [email protected] or follow the Adoption UK Complaints Procedure. For further information about our Complaints Procedure, which is published on the Adoption UK website, or speak to the manager of the service you have been using. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner at: Information Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, SK9 5AF, or on 01625 545 745. Contact with Corporate Subscribers under PECR ‘Corporate Subscribers’ are people who Adoption UK might contact in a professional context, using their work contact details, including phone, email and post. These contact details may be obtained from public domain sources (company websites etc.), from our own business records or from other companies and business contacts. Adoption UK may contact Corporate Subscribers under the legal basis of Legitimate Interests and as permitted under the PECR (2003) legislation. We may contact corporate subscribers by email or telephone provided that the subscriber has not previously opted out and is not registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) or its corporate equivalent (CTPS). Direct Mail is not covered by PECR. We may contact subscribers by mail if they have not previously opted out of receiving such communications. You have a right to object to the processing of your data for direct marketing. We will provide opt-out notices on our communications to you, or you can advise our team at [email protected] Adoption UK understands that PECR (2003) legislation will be replaced by the EU e-Privacy Regulation (ePR) in due course and reserves the right to review this privacy notice accordingly. Changes to this policy Adoption UK reserves the right to make changes to our privacy policy from time to time. Where we do so, we will publish the new policy on our website www.adoptionuk.org and where appropriate notify you by email. Contact Details If you would like to speak to someone at Adoption UK about how you collect, use and store my personal data; or if you have any questions, comments, requests or suggestions, please contact our Data Protection Officer at [email protected], by post at Adoption UK, Vantage Business Park, Bloxham Road, Banbury, Oxon, OX16 9UX or on 01295752240. If you would like to change your contact preferences, please get in touch with us at:[email protected] or telephone our helpline on 0300 666 0006.
2. What is the history of adoption? Expand Although adoption and fostering have taken place informally for centuries, it was only in 1926, after the passing of the Legitimacy Act, that adoption became legally recognised in England and Wales. Adoptions became legally recognised in Northern Ireland in 1929 under the Adoption of Children (NI) Act, and in Scotland in 1930 under the Adoption of Children (Scotland) Act. Initially, adoptions were seen as a way of providing security for war orphans and children born to unmarried mothers. The 1960s and 1970s saw major changes in adoption and fostering and family planning. While the number of babies available for adoption fell rapidly because of improved birth control and changing public attitudes, adoption practice changed its focus to finding families for children with ‘special needs’, such as those in local authority care who had been neglected or had physical or learning disabilities. Today, children are removed from their birth families only when it is judged unsafe for them to continue living there. The average age for a child to be placed for adoption in the UK is 3.5 years. This is because huge efforts are made to keep families together, including seeking members of the wider family who could take the child. Adoption remains a last resort for children who cannot live with any member of their birth family.
3. Choosing a school Expand Factsheet: Priority School Admissions In England, children who were adopted from care in the UK or overseas have priority access to school places during the normal admissions round for primary or secondary school. This short guide to the School Admissions Code explains how priority admissions work in practice. Download factsheet Blog: Choosing Your Child’s School This article looks at some of the questions you might ask when looking at new schools for your adopted child. Read the blog
3. Flexi-schooling and home educating Expand Factsheet: Flexi-schooling Although relatively uncommon, flexi-schooling can be an effective alternative way to approach your child’s education. In this short guide we explore what flexi-schooling is and look at the legal position across the UK. Download factsheet Factsheet: Elective Home Education Home education is becoming an increasingly common choice among adoptive families. If you are looking for alternatives to school-based education, this short guide explains some things you will need to know before you embark on this family journey. Download factsheet
3. Training and Consultancy Privacy Notice Expand This Privacy Notice is for users of all Adoption UK Training and Consultancy. There is a separate notice for our Adoption Support Services; Fundraising, Public Affairs and marketing; and for those who work for us: Services Privacy NoticeFundraising, Public Affairs and MarketingEmployee, Volunteer and Contractor Privacy Notice Where we collect personal information from: Most of the information we hold and process will have been provided by you. When you provide your personal information directly to us. If you sign up to one of our training events, request some information, purchase a product, or communicate directly with our teams for another reason, whether online, on paper, in person, or over the phone, you will be sharing your personal information with us. When you provide your personal information through a third-party organisationFor example, when we are commissioned to deliver training and your name and details are sent as part of an attendance list. Publicly available personal information - if your contact details are recorded online in a public website. What personal information do we record? The type of information (including personal information) that we collect and use and what we do with it will depend upon your relationship with us.We collect only the personal data that we require to provide you with services, fulfil contracts or keep in touch. The data we collect enables us to deliver services that are that are most appropriate to your needs. Should you choose not to divulge this information to us, it may affect our ability to provide the service to you. The data that we need to collect will vary, but for training and consultancy services this may include: Your name Your contact details, including email, telephone number and postal address Your date of birth The details of your family Photographs (Of group sessions and events) Ethnicity information Disability information Your religion Sexual Orientation Details needed to improve your experience such as dietary requirements or accessibility needs. Where we provide you with other types of service in addition to training or consultancy, we are likely to collect additional data about you and your family. Special Categories of Data Due to the nature of the services we provide, some of the data we collect is sensitive.Information relating to Health, Ethnicity, Religion and Sexual Orientation are considered to be Special Categories of Data and we are required to take extra care when handling this information. We may need to process this data under the following conditions: With your explicit consent. Where it is necessary in substantial public interest in: Preventing and detecting unlawful acts. Ensuring equality of opportunity and treatment Provision of confidential counselling or support services Safeguarding of children and individuals at risk. Safeguarding of economic wellbeing of at-risk individuals Children and Young Person’s information Adoption UK is committed to protecting the privacy of the children and young people you provide us with information about, whether this be through our website or at fundraising events. Adoption UK requires the consent of a parent or guardian before anyone under 16 years of age participates in an event organised by us. Children aged under 13 must obtain the consent of a parent or guardian before providing any personal information Who Will Have Access to Information About you? Your information will only be accessed by people who need to do so as part of their role. This could include: Staff working at the service that you use. Staff supporting the delivery of our services. Adoption UK senior managers (If there is a need to do so). Staff working for our partner organisations where we operate the service as part of a partnership. Our commissioners, on whose behalf we may be running the service you use. In some circumstances commissioners may be allowed to check files to make sure that we are providing you with the service that we should be. Regulators (such as OFSTED or Care Inspectorate Wales), who may review our work in order to ensure that we are doing a good job and keeping clear and accurate records. We will always respect your privacy, and will seek your permission before sharing your record with any other services that you are working with. In the following limited circumstances, we may also be obliged to share your information: If we believe you or somebody else could be at risk if we do not do so. If we are legally obliged to share your information, such as in response to a court order. The ways Adoption UK uses your information Adoption UK will only use your information in a fair and transparent manner and where we have a legal basis for doing so. With your ConsentWhere you have consented for us to do so, we will use your data to: Send you information about Adoption UK and our services that we think may be of interest to you. This may be by mail, email, telephone or SMS, but we will offer you the chance to opt in or out of receiving these messages. Direct marketing (if you requested to be added to a list). Sending you relevant information e.g. about legislative changes, research etc. Preparing conference packs. Arrange Training, workshop and conferences. Prepare attendance certificates and analyse Contractual obligation In order to perform our obligations in a contract that we hold with you, we may use and process your personal data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract or agreement that we have with you (For example where you have signed up for a workshop or training course) to enable us to: Run our training, workshops and conferences. Process payments. Provide you with the services, products or information you asked for (including consultancy work). Keep a record of your relationship with us. Make sure we know how you prefer to be contacted. Legitimate interests For our own legitimate interests or those of our clients and customers in: Operating our business efficiently. Marketing our services to potential customers. Ensuring the safety and security of our staff and customers. Informing our commissioners about the performance of our services. In pursuit of these interests, we may: Ask you to give feedback on your use of our services. Provide information about similar products and services that may be of interest. Provide summarized information about our services to the organization that commissioned us. To keep you informed about courses, workshops and conferences that are relevant to you. Recruit staff, associate trainers and volunteers. When Legally Obliged to Do SoUnder certain, limited conditions we may be obliged by law to disclose data to the relevant authorities for example: Keeping financial records. Public interest concerns about a vulnerable child or vulnerable adult. Sharing Data with Third-Parties We will never share your information with a third party who intends to use it for their own marketing purposes and there are very limited instances where we will share your personal data with a third party. These could include: If a third party provides a service to us, such as running an event on our behalf or providing an element of a contract for us, such as email distribution or postal mail distribution. For the administration of events. For example, an event venue may require the provision of the names of attendees in advance, for security purposes. Where there is a legal or regulatory requirement to disclose your personal information such as from HMRC or the courts, we have a genuine and real concern regarding a person’s well-being, or where disclosure is necessary for taxation and criminal investigation purposes. In order to prevent fraud and crime, we may perform due diligence checks to ensure we are not being abused, such as by fraudsters or criminals posing as genuine donors for example money laundering proceeds of crime and tax avoidance. We do these checks to help protect Adoption UK from abuse. Data Security Adoption UK has a number of steps in place to keep your personal information as safe as possible. We train all of our staff in data protection and data security to increase awareness of its importance. We keep our data protection and data security policies and practices under regular review and review the personal data that we hold, where we hold it and what we do with it. Adoption UK requires the third parties it works with to comply with data protection laws and puts controls in place to ensure that your information is handled safely and appropriately. Where does Adoption UK store your personal information? Wherever possible, we ensure that your personal data is kept in the UK. We minimise use of servers outside of the EEA and in some limited instances if we need to transfer your personal information to a third party for processing in countries that aren’t listed as ‘adequate’ by the European Commission we’ll only do so where we have appropriate contracts or other appropriate safeguards in place. By communicating electronically with us, you acknowledge and agree that your data may be processed in this way. How long will Adoption UK retain your personal information? We will only keep information about you for the length of time it is necessary to do so in order to engage with you in the way that you have requested and in accordance with our data protection legal requirements, our regulatory requirements as a registered adoption support agency, and tax and accounting rules. When your personal data is no longer needed, we will ensure that it is disposed of in a secure manner. If you would like us to delete any information we hold about you, please contact us using the details in the “Contact us” section and note the ‘Your Rights’ section below. Your rights The GDPR legislation provides you with a number of rights in relation to your personal data; in some cases these are qualified rights, in particular where we have legal and regulatory requirements to retain certain records. Right to Withdraw Consent Where you have consented to our processing of your data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. To do so, please contact our Data Protection Officer by email at [email protected] or write to us using the details below. Right to Access You have a right to obtain copies of the information that we hold about you.To request access to any data, please email our Data Protection Officer at [email protected] or write to us at the address below explaining which data you require. In the interest of security, you will need to prove your identity before any information can be shared with you. Under certain circumstances we may not be able to disclose all of the information you request, for example if it contains information about other people or there are legal reasons for us to withhold the data. Right to Rectification We would like to ensure that the data we hold about you is accurate and up-to-date. If you believe the data we hold is inaccurate, please tell us in the first instance. However, you may also ask us formally to correct your data by emailing our Data Protection Officer at [email protected] or writing to us at the below. Right to Erasure or the Restriction of ProcessingIn certain circumstances you can ask us to remove your data from our systems by emailing our Data Protection Officer at [email protected] or writing to us at the below address. If there is a legal reason for us to continue holding the data we will let you know, otherwise we will make efforts to comply with your request. You may ask us to restrict our processing of your data if: We are using the data for marketing You believe that our processing of the data is unlawful You object to us using your data (pending investigation) In these circumstances, we may continue to store your information, but will otherwise only process it with your consent or where we have a legal reason to do so. Right to Complain If you are concerned about the way we have processed your personal information, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioners Officer (ICO). To do so please refer to the ICO website. Contact with Corporate Subscribers under PECR ‘Corporate Subscribers’ are people who Adoption UK might contact in a professional context, using their work contact details, including phone, email and post. These contact details may be obtained from public domain sources (company websites etc.), from our own business records or from other companies and business contacts. Adoption UK may contact Corporate Subscribers under the legal basis of Legitimate Interests and as permitted under the PECR (2003) legislation. We may contact corporate subscribers by email or telephone provided that the subscriber has not previously opted out and is not registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) or its corporate equivalent (CTPS). Direct Mail is not covered by PECR. We may contact subscribers by mail if they have not previously opted out of receiving such communications. You have a right to object to the processing of your data for direct marketing. We will provide opt-out notices on our communications to you, or you can advise us at [email protected] Adoption UK understands that PECR (2003) legislation will be replaced by the EU e-Privacy Regulation (ePR) in due course and reserves the right to review this privacy notice accordingly. Links Adoption UK does not have any control over how any third-party websites handle and use your data. Therefore, if you follow any links to third party sites from Adoption UK websites, you must check the Privacy Policy for that organisation in order to understand how your data could be used. This policy does not cover third party websites. Changes to this policy To make sure that this policy and our practices stay legally compliant and up-to-date, we may make changes from time to time. If we make any substantial changes, we will make this clear on our website, or by contacting you directly, if appropriate Contact Details If you would like to speak to someone at Adoption UK about how you collect, use and store my personal data; or if you have any questions, comments, requests or suggestions, please contact our Data Protection Officer at [email protected], by post at Adoption UK, Vantage Business Park, Bloxham Road, Banbury, Oxon, OX16 9UX or on 01295752240. If you would like to change your contact preferences, please get in touch with us at:[email protected] or telephone our helpline on 0300 666 0006.
3. Why do people adopt? Expand Around half of adopters come to adoption because they were unable to have birth children. However this figure has been decreasing steadily in recent years, and the number of people coming to adoption as a first choice for starting a family is increasing. Other factors include religious and cultural beliefs, people in same sex partnerships who want to become parents, and concerns about population growth and planetary boundaries.