Our Partners

We Are Family (WAF) is an independent adoption support community that operates in and around London. Membership is free and open to adopters and approved prospective adopters. You can join here.  They run peer-to-peer (i.e. parent-to-parent) events such as parent support groups, playgroups, family meet-ups, parties and socials. They also provide many opportunities to connect online, such as local group meet-ups on Zoom, webinars, blogs, a private Facebook group and other member resources on their website. All events are designed and run by adopters, on a voluntary basis. Rather than offering advice, they offer community. They say it takes a village to raise a child. WAF wants to build those villages.

New Family Social is the only national LGBT+ adoption and fostering charity in the UK. It provides support, improves the treatment of LGBT+ people in the adoption and fostering process, encourages inclusion and works directly with its members and agencies to find more new families for children in care.

Adoption UK is the leading charity providing support, community and advocacy for all those parenting or supporting children who cannot live with their birth parents. They connect adoptive families, provide information and signposting on a range of adoption-related issues and campaign for improvements to adoption policy and legislation at the highest levels.

First4Adoption is the dedicated information service for people interested in adopting a child in England.  Consider also their First Steps online resource. It is a great tool to see how prepared and ready you are for an adoption assessment, that will help you understand the rewards and challenges of adoptive parenting.

The NATP provide support, training and advice to all families of children who have suffered developmental trauma. It is now run by staff who all have experience in child trauma, through either supporting traumatised children themselves or being a former child in care. The NATP provides a range of benefits such as Listening Circles, Peer support online and a members hotline .

AdoptionPlus provide a multidisciplinary therapy service including a Consultant Child Clinical Psychologist, therapeutic social workers, play therapists, teachers, paediatric occupational therapists and mindfulness therapists. They undertake a range of specialist clinical assessments including neuro-developmental assessments of children, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (Dan Hughes model), Theraplay® and Mindfulness and Sensory Integration. They offer therapeutic interventions based on a comprehensive and wide reaching assessment of the needs of the family.

PAC-UK is an independent adoption support agency not just for the child, but also has extensive experience in all aspects of supporting the adoptive family and have specific expertise in providing assessments and therapeutic interventions to families whose children experienced developmental trauma prior to their adoption placement. They also support birth family members and adopted adults.

Kinship Response is the Grandparents Plus membership service which is now available to all special guardians. They provide access the specialist kinship care advice service, a virtual support group, the latest information and advice  and live regional Facebook surgeries.

Kinship Hub is a new community based service that aims to support  kinship carers across London. They offer free online weekly webinars to kinship carers and children on a range of topics from managing contact safely, to promoting a positive sense of identity, life story work and building resilience.  Kinship Hub also delivers a program of webinars and a monthly online dinner socials for children and carers to get together in an informal but safe way and socialize.