Info for Agencies
Adoption UK has a huge amount to offer adoption and fostering agencies, and can help agencies fulfil their duty of providing adoption support services to adoptive families. The best way to benefit from all the services we provide to you and your adopters is through agency membership.
Through supporting adoptive families for over 35 years, we have developed a vast range of services which can be tailored to individual agencies’ needs.
Find families - Children Who Wait
More than 30 per cent of children featured in Children Who Wait elicit suitable enquiries. Agencies use us repeatedly due to our competitive rates and friendly, flexible service.
Further details such as extra photos, information and videos of children can be made available to adopters to give them a fuller picture of a child, through our additional service Children Who Wait Online.
Sent out bimonthly by email to adoption and fostering agencies, our agency newsletter gives details of new services we are providing, changes in what we offer and up and coming events.
Adoption support for your adoptive families
We can provide your adopters with a range of essential support services. These include access to a Helpline and our vibrant Online Community; a Buddy to support them in the early days of placement; a Parent Consultant if families are going through a particularly difficult time; local support groups; and email or phone contact with other adopters.
Training – for you and your adopters
Adoption UK offers a wide range of workshops for adoptive parents, prospective adopters and professionals covering Contact, School and Education Issues, Parental Substance Misuse, Telling About Adoption and more.
Our award-winning six-day parent support programme ‘It’s a Piece of Cake?’ will give your adopters and long term foster carers a fresh approach to parenting hurt children, helping to minimise family distress, placement disruption and breakdown.
And our Insight and Strategies two-day workshop is designed for practitioners to find out about the realities of life in an adoptive or foster family, and how you can support parents and carers living with hurt children.
Our bimonthly magazine packed with information, articles, updates and details of services is a fantastic way of keeping up to date with the world of adoption.
As well as features on real families’ experiences, it includes a roundup of adoption in the media and a rundown of the latest research findings.
Where else would you find a comprehensive range of adoption cards, as well as essential publications for adopters and professionals working in the field of adoption? Must have’s include Adoption Law for Adopters, Guiding You Through the Adoption Process, Adoption Now and Adoption Now 2 - both packed full of features from authoritative voices from the adoption community, such as Dan Hughes, Kate Cairns and many others.
Adoption UK agency members receive fantastic discounts. Additionally, if you're interested in purchasing in bulk we can negotiate discounts, please contact the Online Team from our Online Shop for further details.