LGBTQ+ in England, exploring adopting and looking at agencies? If an agency you’re considering isn’t on the list below, you may want to ask it why. 

Since the summer, senior leaders from across the adoption sector in England have attended training to develop their agencies’ understanding of the issues LGBTQ+ adoption applicants and adoptive parents face. The training is part of a package of work for the National Adoption Recruitment Strategy Group. The course is open to and free for senior leaders delivering services to adoption agencies in England.

Some 14 half-day sessions were organised to deliver the first half of the training, which is a two part course. The first wave of training sessions concludes later in November, with the second half of the training course due later in 2022 and early 2023.

Among the regional and voluntary adoption agencies participating in the training are:

Action for Children

Adopt Coast to Coast RAA

Adopt East RAA

Adopt London East RAA

Adopt London West RAA

Adopt North East RAA

Adopt South RAA

Adopt South West RAA

Adopt Thames Valley RAA

Adopters for Adoption

Adoption Central England (ACE) RAA

Adoption Connects RAA

Adoption East Midlands RAA

Adoption Focus

Adoption in Merseyside RAA

Adoption Lancashire & Blackpool RAA

Adoption Matters

Adoption Now RAA

Adoption Partnership South East RAA

Adoption South East RAA

Adoption West RAA

Birmingham Children's Trust RAA

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Adoption RAA

Caritas Care

CCS Adoption

Coram Ambitious for Adoption RAA

Coram BAAF

CVAA

Diagrama

Family Adoption Links RAA

ICA Centre

National Adoption Leeds

One Adoption North & Humber RAA

One Adoption West Yorkshire RAA

PACT Charity

SSAFA

St Francis’ Children’s Society

Together for Adoption RAA

Yorkshire Adoption Agency

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