Resources

An adoption support community in and around London open to all adopters both prospective (from stage 2 onwards) and approved. They provide active peer to peer support through regular meet ups and information sharing.

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.

An independent adoption support agency not just for the child, but also for the adoptive family and the birth family left behind, plus adults adopted as children who continue to find difficulties arising on their own life journey.

First4Adoption is the dedicated information service for people interested
in adopting a child in England.

CoramBAAF is an independent membership organisation for professionals, foster carers and adopters, and anyone else working with or looking after children in or from care, or adults who have been affected by adoption. It is a successor organisation to the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF).