Adopt London South Support

Contact us

For any enquiries relating to Adoption Support, please e-mail us at the [email protected] where the mailbox is regularly monitored. We welcome e-mail enquiries, which are often progressed quicker.

Alternatively, if you feel you would like to speak with someone, call 020 7525 4491. The Post Adoption Helpline is open Monday to Friday from 9.30am to 4.00pm. Outside of these hours, please leave a message with your name and contact details and a Social Worker will endeavour to contact you the next working day.

For any enquiries relating to Letterbox, please email the Letterbox Team [email protected] or call on 020 7525 1376.

If your enquiry relates to Adopted Adults then please e-mail [email protected]

For any enquires regarding an interest in Adoption, then please contact the Recruitment Line, via email [email protected]  or call 020 7525 1746.

Adopted Adults Support Group 

Are you an adopted adult? Are you looking to meet other adopted adults?

We have an Adopted Adults support group which is guided by Adopted Adults but supported by Adopt London South. We hold monthly meetings which are a mix of online and in person where, in a safe space. Our members can meet and share commonalities, experiences and feelings about how adoption may have impacted their lives. The group is open to everyone who was adopted, and who is over 18 years old and lives in one of our 10 South London boroughs (This includes Greenwich, Croydon, Lewisham, Lambeth, Southwark, Merton, Sutton, Wandsworth, Richmond and Kingston).

If you would like to know more please contact [email protected]

The Great Behaviour Breakdown training

The Great Behaviour Breakdown is a ground-breaking parenting approach that has helped even the most difficult of family situations find stability and healing. Adoptive parents whose children have suffered abuse and or trauma require specialist knowledge and skills in order to parent successfully and maintain their own and their children’s emotional and physical well-being.

This training will help families shift away from anger and blame, frustration, and hopelessness into a place of understanding, compassion and love. It focusses on the parent-child relationship and helps parents to create environments for their children which are safe and conducive to building strong love-based attachment relationships.

Behaviours covered will include: lying, stealing, hoarding, gorging, food issues, aggression, defiance, transitions, bedtimes, bath times, lack of eye contact, conscience and social skills, sexualised behaviours and self-harm.

If you have a child in placement this course can be funded through the ASF.  All training will take place online and the timings will be 9.30am -1pm for each session, you will need to attend all four sessions. Forthcoming dates are:

January dates: Mon 20, Tues 21 Jan, Mon 27 and Tues 28 January 2025.

June dates: Mon 9, Tues 10, Mon 16 and Tues 17 June 2025.

October dates: Mon 6, Tues 7 , Mon 13 and Tues 14 October 2025.

Places will be allocated on a first come first service basis please contact [email protected]

Join The Adoptables

The Adoptables is a social group for adopted young people that provides those between the age of 8 and 18 a platform to talk about their unique life, school, their adoption experiences and develop relationships with other adopted young people.

The young people are also encouraged to share their views on adoption-related topics, to help shape our adoption practices and influence the development of ALS service. Take a look at the Adoptables logo that one of the adopted young people created, and an acrostic that the under 12s group created.

A – AMAZING, Awesome
D – Depressing, Dramatic, Demanding
O – Optional, Ordinary
P – Parents, Petrifying.
T – Terrifying, Terrific, Therapy, Terrible
A – Adorable, Annoying, Adoption
B – Brave, Behaviour, Brilliant
L – Lovable, Lovely,
E – Extraordinary, Exciting,
S – Super, Supportive, Superb, Special, Social Workers

Get Involved – If you are an adopted young person and would like to meet with other young people like you please email: [email protected]

Guides to adoption support for children and young persons

It can be difficult growing up being adopted. Adopted children may have questions about their past, need reassurance or want more information.  It is important that adopted children are encouraged to talk about their feelings, are aware of the support that is available for them, and who they can talk to confidentially.

We have produced Children’s Guide to Adoption Support and Young Persons Guide to Adoption Support – depending on your child’s age group for you to download, read and share with your young people about the types of adoption support that is available to them. These aim to answer some of frequently asked questions, to provide assurance about their experience of adoption and direct them to where they can access support. If you have any questions about the guides, if you would like a printed copy, or require them in braille or in different language please do not hesitate to contact us.

Also available to download from our website are The Children and Young Person’s Guide to adoption. These guides can help children to understand more about what was happening, and address common questions such as what adoption means, who are the people making the decisions and how their life will change. Reading these aloud can help children understand and relate it to how they might be feeling, and can help reduce anxiety.