Adoption - Useful Links

Below is a list of websites you may find helpful

• www.adoptionuk.com
  Adoption UK is a voluntary organisation which offers membership to adoptive families before,during and after adoption.
   
• www.baaf.org.uk
  BAAF Adoption and Fostering, the leading UK wide membership organisation for all those concerned with adoption fostering and child-care practice.
  
• www.bemyparent.org.uk 
  A family-finding service from the British Association for Adoption & Fostering. It is aimed at prospective adopters and foster carers and includes profiles, photographs and videos of UK children waiting for new families as well as general information on becoming an adoptive or foster parent.
   
• www.afteradoption.org.uk/
  Helping everyone affected by Adoption.
   
• www.norcap.org
  National organisation for counselling of adoptee's and their parents.
   
• www.dcsf.gov.uk/everychildmatters/safeguardingandsocialcare/childrenincare/adoption/adoption/
  Every Child Matters - Adoption.
   
• www.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 the prospective adopters.
  
  
• Positive Parenting Campaign:
  Manchester-based group campaigning for opportunities for fostering and adoption by lesbians and gay men.
  c/o LGF,
  Box 102,
  Unity House,
  15, Pritchard Street,
  Manchester.
  M1 7DA.
  positiveparenting2001@hotmail.com
  www.positiveparentingcampaign.freeservers.com 
  
  
• Proud 2 b Parents
  This is a group for LGBT parents and their Children. It meets every 4th Saturday at:
  Moss Side Sure Start Children Centre,
  30 Selworthy Road,
  M16 7UH.
  
  The group is growing continuously and we have about 70 families we are in contact regularly. Children can enjoy the venue with its various fun activities. While parents can catch up, make families and discuss issues that face them and their family. Please contact Matt Roberts on 0161 226 0162, 07506515932 or email matthew.roberts@manchester.gov.uk.
  
  
• Northern Support Group:
  Support group for lesbians and gay men interested or involved in fostering or adopting children, meets bi-monthly in Manchester and covers north of England.
  PO Box 2078,
  Sheffield.
  S2 4YQ.
  mob. 07952-410998.
  
  
• Lesbian & Gay Foster & Adoptive Parents Network (LAGFAPN):
  London-based support group for lesbians and gay men interested or involved in fostering or adopting children.
  c/o Stonewall,
  46-48, Grosvenor Gardens,
  London.
  SW1W 0EB.
  tel. 0207-881 9440.
  lagfapn@hotmail.com
  
  
• Pink Parents UK:
  National support, information and magazine for all lesbian and gay parents and their children.
  Box 55,
  Green Leaf Bookshop,
  82, Colston Street,
  Bristol.
  BS1 5BB.
  tel. 0117-904 4500.
  enquiries@pinkparents.org.uk
  
• Children of Lesbians & Gays Everywhere (COLAGE):
  Web-based resource and support for children and young people with lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender parents.
  www.colage.org 
   

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