In May 2023 senior leaders from across the adoption sector in England took part in a course specifically designed to drive improvements in its work with LGBTQ+ applicants.

As LGBTQ+ people now represent the second largest group of people who adopt in the country New Family Social works with agencies to make this as smooth as possible – while also supporting and advocating for LGBTQ+ people on their adoption (and fostering) journeys.

Among the organisations that completed the two-part course for senior leaders were:

• Action for Children
• Adopt East RAA
• Adopt London East RAA
• Adopt London South RAA
• Adopt North East RAA
• Adopt South RAA
• Adopt Thames Valley RAA
• Adopters for Adoption
• Adoption Central England (ACE) RAA
• Adoption Connects RAA
• Adoption East Midlands RAA
• Adoption Focus
• Adoption Matters
• Adoption Now RAA
• Adoption West RAA
• Birmingham Children’s Trust (Now Adopt Birmingham RAA)
• Caritas Care
• Coram Ambitious for Adoption RAA
• Coram Baaf
• CVAA
• Diagrama
• IAC Centre
• National Adoption Leeds
• One Adoption North & Humber RAA
• One Adoption West Yorkshire RAA
• PACT Charity
• SSAFA
• Yorkshire Adoption Agency

The training – which was free to attend – was open and promoted to all regional adoption agencies and voluntary adoption agencies working in England.

If you’re considering which agency to go on your adoption journey with – and it doesn’t appear on the list above – you may want to ask it why.

Bronze members can also log in to the site to check out agencies across the UK that want to hear from LGBTQ+ people as potential applicants.