Adoption services

TACT carefully matches children to the right prospective families. Our adoption team’s social workers have expertise in the recruitment, assessment and preparation of adopters. We support our adopters, children and families throughout the adoption process and beyond – our support doesn’t just stop when the adoption order is granted; adoptive families can approach us at any time. TACT understands that adoption is for life and we will try to offer a service that meets adopters’ needs or we’ll help adoptive families to find support through other sources.

Our adoption support covers a wide range of services, including:

  • ongoing training for adopters in order to meet the needs of children and develop parenting skills

  • groups for children, adopters and birth parents

  • counselling, information and advice

  • mediation services

  • support to prevent the disruption of an adoption

  • therapeutic services for adopted children

  • respite care if this is considered to be in the child’s best interest

  • regular communications through an adoption newsletter featuring information about TACT services, real life accounts from adopters and information about our training programme

  • regular activity events including the annual adoption summer party

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