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  • Adoption agency contacts

    Topics:
    • Social Care Policy, 
    • Adoption

    If you wish to obtain further information on domestic adoption or intercountry adoption, you can contact the health and social care adoption and fostering service which recruits, trains and supports foster carers and adopters across the five health and social care trust areas in Northern Ireland

    Health and Social Care Adoption and Fostering Service

    Telephone: 0800 0720 137
    Health and Social Care Adoption and Fostering Service website

    There are also a number of organisations you can contact for information and advice in relation to adoption:

    Voluntary Adoption Agencies

    Adoption Routes

    Adoption Routes provides a range of services including training and assessment of prospective adopters, counselling of women with an unplanned pregnancy, placing children for adoption, fertility counselling, adoption support to families with an adopted child, post adoption services to adult adoptees, birth parents and birth relatives and independent adoption counselling to birth parents of children being placed for adoption.

    Adoption Routes
    Unit 2
    Pilot’s View
    18 Heron Road
    Belfast
    BT3 9LE
    Telephone: 028 9073 6080
    email: info@adoptionroutes.co.uk
    Adoption Routes website

    Barnardo’s Fostering and Adoption NI

    Barnardo’s focuses on finding homes for children with additional needs and on providing positive outcomes for the children. They provide training and support to carers and adoptive families through the whole fostering or adoption journey so they can transform children’s lives.

    Barnardo's Fostering Northern Ireland,
    230b Belmont Road,
    Belfast BT4 2AW
    Telephone: 028 9065 2288
    Email: BFANI@barnardos.org.uk
    Website: Fostering in Northern Ireland | Barnardo's (barnardos.org.uk)

    Family Care Adoption Services

    Family Care Adoption Services provides a range of services including training and assessment of prospective adopters, counselling of women with an unplanned pregnancy, placing children for adoption, adoption support to families with an adopted child, post adoption services to adult adoptees, birth parents and birth relatives and independent adoption counselling to birth parents of children being placed for adoption.

    Family Care Adoption Services 
    50 Knockbreda Road
    Belfast
    BT6 0JB

    Telephone: 028 90691133 
    email: email@familycaresociety.org
    Family Care Adoption - Specialist Voluntary Adoption Agency

    The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association (SSAFA) Forces Help

    This organisation provides services to Service and ex-Service men, women and their families who are thinking about adopting a child, placing a child for adoption or who are themselves adopted and are looking for help or advice.

    SSAFA Adoption Service
    19 Queen Elizabeth Street
    London
    SE1 2LP
    Telephone: 020 7463 9326
    email: cs.adoption@ssafa.org.uk
    SSAFA website

    Other sources of advice and information on adoption

    Adopt NI

    Adopt NI is an independent Northern Ireland charity providing support to the adoption and looked after communities.

    Adopt NI
    Unit 2
    18 Heron Road
    Belfast
    BT3 9LE
    Telephone: 028 9045 4222
    email: info@adoptni.org
    Adopt NI website

    Adoption UK

    Adoption UK is a national self-help charity offering support before, during and after adoption. It provides independent support, information and advice on good practice to all concerned with adoption. In particular, it offers experience from adoptive families to prospective and established adopters and to all those who work with them.

    Adoption UK (Northern Ireland)
    (At Groundwork)
    63-75 Duncairn Gardens
    Belfast
    BT15 2GB
    Telephone: 028 9077 5211

    Northern Ireland daytime helpline (Monday – Friday 10am – 4pm)
    Telephone: 028 9009 9118

    Northern Ireland evening helpline (Monday – Thursday 8pm – 10pm)
    Telephone: 0844 848 7900

    email: admin@adoptionuk.org.uk
    Adoption UK website

    Family Support NI

    The Health and Social Care Board for Northern Ireland, has developed the Northern Ireland Family Support website. The purpose of this website is to create a comprehensive database of family support and childcare services across Northern Ireland.

    Family Support NI
    Gransha Park House
    Granhsa Park
    Clooney Road
    Derry
    BT47 6FN
    Telephone: 0845 600 6483
    email: info@familysupportni.gov.uk
    Adoption Services FSNI website

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    • Adoption legislation
    • Adoption questions and answers
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