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Useful links
•BAAF(British Association for Adoption & Fostering)
Address: Saffron House, 3rd Floor, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS
Tel: 020 7421 2600
Website: www.baaf.org.uk
BAAF is an independent organisation which provides information and advice about adoption and fostering. It strives to improve practice and to influence policy, runs courses and conferences and publishes a wealth of informative literature. It has both agency and individual membership available.
•Be My Parent
Address: Saffron House, 3rd Floor, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS
Tel: 020 7421 2666
Website: www.bemyparent.org.uk
Email: bmp@baaf.org.uk
Be My Parent is a monthly colour newspaper, produced by BAAF, which features articles about adoption and children who need new, permanent families.
•Adoption UK
Address: Linden House, 55 The Green, South Bar Street, Banbury, Oxon, OX16 9AB
Tel: 0844 8487900 (10am to 4pm) or 01295 752240
Website: www.adoptionuk.org.uk
Email: helpdesk@adoptionuk.org.uk
Adoption UK is a national self-help group run by, and for, adoptive parents, offering support before, during and after adoption. Adoption UK publishes Adoption Today, a magazine for those interested in adoption. Children Who Wait, which is part two of the magazine, features children for whom new families are being sought.
•The Adoption Register
Address: The Adoption Register for England and Wales, Unit 4, Pavilion Business Park,
Royds Hall Road, Wortley, Leeds, LS12 6AJ
General Contact telephone number: 0870 750 2173
Adoption Register Adopters' Helpline: 0870 750 2176
Fax: 0870 750 2174
Website: www.adoptionregister.org.uk
Email: mail@adoptionregister.org.uk
The Adoption Register is a database which holds information about children awaiting adoption and adopters wishing to adopt. Approved local authority adoption agencies and voluntary agencies send in data to the Register about adopters after they are approved to adopt and about children for whom adoption is the plan.
The Register then suggests links between the children and prospective adopters.
IOMAS refers all prospective adopters to the Register as soon as they are approved, thus maximising the possibility of a link. Consent is always obtained before a referral is made.
•Adoption & Fostering Information Line
Address: 193 Market Street Hyde, Cheshire SK14 1HF
Tel: 0800 783 4086
Website: www.adoption.org.uk
A UK based organisation providing general information about fostering and adoption across the British isles.
•General Register Office (GRO – England)
Address: P.O. Box 2, Southport, Merseyside, PR8 2JD
Phone: 0151 4714830
Website: www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizennsandrights/Registeringlifeevent/Birthandadoptionrecords
For initial information about how to access information if you are an adopted adult born in England.
•Natural Parents' Network (NPN)
Tel: 0161 287 8737
Website: www.n-p-n.co.uk
Email: administrator@n-p-n.fsnet.co.uk
Natural Parents Network is a self help organisation, which offers non-judgmental, confidential and independent support to birth parents and relatives who have lost a child through adoption.
•Adults affected by Adoption (AAA-NORCAP)
Address: 112 Church Road, Wheatley, Oxfordshire, OX33 1LU
Tel: 01865 875000 (Mon-Fri 10.00am-4.30pm and 17.00 -19.30)
Website:www.norcap.org.uk
Email: enquiries@norcap.org.uk
AAA-NORCAP is a national organisation focussed entirely upon supporting adults affected by adoption. The services of the charity are available to adopted adults, birth parents and other relatives, and adoptive family members and other people affected by adoption or adoption reunion issues
•Department for Children, Schools and Families
Address: Sanctuary Building, Great Smith Street. London. SW1P-3BT
Tel: 0870 000 2288
Website: www.direct.gov.uk then enter adoption into search.
The Department in England responsible for policy and practice in adoption in England and Wales
•Department of Health and Social Security, Social Services Division (IOM)
Address: Hillary House, Prospect Hill, Douglas, Isle of Man IM1 1EQ
Phone: 01624 686179
Website: www.gov.im/dhss/services
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