In 2020, more than half of prospective adopters felt that Covid-19 restrictions had made their approvals process more difficult than it would otherwise have been. Read more
An Adoption UK staff member writes about the benefits of the Neurosequential Model in Education. Read more
This year’s Adoption Week Scotland 2021 was focused on the theme of ‘The Current Face of Adoption’ – so what better way to begin than with two events centring on the families and young people in the narrative? Read more
In part two of a three-part series on Contact, adoptive mum Hope, who also has two adopted siblings, writes about unexpected contact via social media. Read more
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2021 was pretty busy for our family and, although the major events were all positive (unlike the illnesses, bereavements and collective disappointments of the previous year), it often felt like we were pinwheeling from one thing to another. All events involve change, and some changes were easier for our son H to handle than others. Read more
2021 saw a paradigm shift in the way adopted people are viewed by adoption organisations, including Adoption UK. There was increasing recognition that adopted people needed to be heard and their experiences valued. Read more
An adoptive parent blogs about finding the positives in difficult days. Read more
Our education policy adviser outlines what special educational needs and disability (SEND) provision in schools we'd like to see introduced for adopted children. Read more
In part one of a three-part series on Contact, adoptive mum Hope writes about direct contact with birth family from a big sister’s perspective. Read more
Driving home recently I was listening to a Radio 4 programme in which a focus group were given £10 and asked to distribute it across a long list of priorities from public sector pay to research. Read more
As a couple we had experienced first-hand the grief of infertility and the demands of IVF. We were hugely lucky after six years, five rounds of IVF, two miscarriages and huge amounts of investment (on every level) to have our two children. Read more
There have been many challenges and the toughest decisions of our lives, but our brave little boy brings sunshine to us every day. Read more