Adoption support

TACT will carefully match you with the right child(ren).

How long is the adoption support for?

We support 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.

TACT Adoption offers

  • 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

Relevant publications

Local Authority adoption breakdown rates run up to 20%. In the past two years none of TACT's adoption placement have broken down.