Adoption support organisations
All contact details including links to websites, where they exist, have been provided alphabetically at the bottom of the page.
Adoption UK offers a wide range of advice and information on adoption. They also have a helpline (11am - 4pm Monday-Friday).
British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) offers a wide range of advice and information on adoption and fostering.
General Register Office - Adoptions Section maintains an adoption contact register.
Inter-country Adoption Centre (IAC) can offer further advice and support. The IAC runs a number of interesting courses and workshops for inter-country adopters. Croydon residents can access these courses at a reduced rate.
Lesbian and Gay Foster and Adoptive Parents' Network supports lesbians and gay men who are interested or involved in fostering or adoption and raises the profile of the issue.
Overseas Adoption Support and Information Service (OASIS) offers a wide range of advice and information on inter-country adoption.
Paternity/Adoption leave and pay for inter-country adopters - for information on rights to paternity/adoption leave and pay see the www.dti.gov.uk website.
Post Adoption Centre provides independent advice, counselling and support to anyone affected by or dealing with the challenges and opportunities of adoption. In addition to advice and adult counselling, there is a programme of groups and workshops on adoption issues. Croydon residents can access these courses at a reduced rate.
National Organisation for Counselling Adoptees and Their Parents (Norcap) is a self-help group for adopted adults and their birth and adoptive families. They also maintain an adoption contact register.
Natural Parents' Network (NPN) is for natural parents and relatives who have lost children to adoption. Their helpline is open Monday-Friday 9.30am – 11.30am.
Natural Parents Support Group supports people separated by adoption. Write to the address given to be put in touch with your local co-ordinator.
Talk Adoption is a freephone, national helpline for adopted people under the age of 26.
For further information contact the Post Adoption Support Team via the Fostering and Adoption Service details below.
Contact Details
- Contact name
- Department for Children, Young People and Learners
- Telephone
- 020 8726 6400
- Minicom
- 020 8760 5797
- Address
- Taberner House
Park Lane
Croydon CR9 3JS
- Contact name
- Welfare Benefits Hotline
- Telephone
- Freephone 0800 731 5920
- Contact name
- Fostering and Adoption Service
- Telephone
- Freephone 0800 389 0129
- Fax
- 020 8760 5665
- Address
- 4-06 Taberner House
Park Lane
Croydon CR9 2BA
- Contact name
- Adoption UK Helpline
- Telephone
- 0844 848 7900
- Contact name
- General Register Office - Adoptions Section
- Telephone
- 0151 471 4830
- adoptions@ons.gov.uk
- Address
- Smedley Hydro
Trafalgar Road
Southport
Merseyside
PR8 2HH - Website
- www.gro.gov.uk
- Contact name
- Natural Parents Support Group
- Address
- PO Box 79
Felixstowe
Suffolk
IP11 9UA
- Contact name
- Natural Parents' Network (NPN)
- Telephone
- 0845 456 5031
- administrator@n-p-n.fnet.co.uk
- Address
- 18 Bishops Way
Stradbroke
Suffolk
IP21 5JR - Website
- www.n-p-n.fsnet.co.uk
- Contact name
- Lesbian and Gay Foster and Adoptive Parents’ Network
- Telephone
- 020 7881 9440
- lagfapn@hotmail.com
- Address
- London Support Group
c/o Stonewall
46-48 Grosvenor Gardens
London SW11 0EB
- Contact name
- National Organisation for Counselling Adoptees and Their Parents
- Telephone
- 01865 875000
- Fax
- 01865 875686
- enquiries@norcap.org
- Address
- 112 Church Road
Wheatley
Oxon
OX33 1LU - Website
- www.norcap.org.uk
- Contact name
- The Overseas Adoption Support and Information Service (OASIS)
- Telephone
- Helpline 0870 241 7069
- Website
- www.adoptionoverseas.org
- Contact name
- The Post Adoption Centre Advice Line
- Telephone
- 0870 777 2197
- advice@postadoptioncentre.org.uk
- Contact name
- The Post Adoption Centre
- Telephone
- 020 7284 0555
- Fax
- 0870 777 2167
- Address
- 5 Torriano Mews
Torriano Avenue
London
NW5 2RZ - Website
- www.postadoptioncentre.org.uk
- Contact name
- Inter-country Adoption Centre (IAC)
- Telephone
- 0870 516 8742
- Fax
- 020 8440 5675
- info@icacentre.org.uk
- Address
- 64-66 High Street
Barnet
Herts.
EN5 5SJ - Website
- www.icacentre.org.uk
- Contact name
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)
- Telephone
- 020 7593 2000
- Fax
- 020 7593 0200
- mail@baaf.org.uk
- Address
- Skyline House
200 Union Street
London
SE1 0LX - Website
- www.baaf.org.uk
- Contact name
- Adoption UK
- Telephone
- 01295 752240
- Fax
- 01295 752241
- admin@adoptionuk.org.uk
- Address
- 46 The Green
South Bar Street
Banbury
Oxfordshire
OX16 9AB - Website
- www.adoptionuk.org.uk
