20 Best UK Adoption Blogs and Websites

1. Adoption UK

Information and signposting on a range of adoption-related issues and campaign for improvements to adoption policy and legislation at the highest levels. Adoption UK is the leading charity providing support, community and advocacy for all those parenting or supporting children who cannot live with their birth parents.
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adoptionuk.org
19K⋅ 18.5K ⋅1 post / week Get Email Contact

2. Adoption Matters

Adoption Matters is a children's charity specialising in adoption and adoption support. That is all we do and we have been doing so for nearly 70 years. We exist as an organisation with only one purpose: to provide a comprehensive advice and support service for all those who are considering adoption, or who have been touched by it. Catch up on the latest news & events from Adoption Matters.
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6.1K⋅ 5.5K ⋅1 post / month ⋅ Oct 2015 Get Email Contact

3. We Are Family

London, England, UK
We are family is an adoption support community in and around London, open to all adopters including prospective and approved ones.
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1 post / quarter ⋅ Nov 2013 Get Email Contact

4. Life with Katie and Pip: Our Adoption Story

UK
A story of adoption and making a Forever Family: This is the blog of our adoption journey; meeting our wonderful children Katie and Pip and our lives as family of four.
lifewithkatie.co.uk
2.2K ⋅1 post / quarter ⋅ Mar 2010 Get Email Contact

5. Journeys of an adoptive dad

London, England, UK
Journeys of an Adoptive Dad is a blog from adopter Andrew Taylor-Dawson. It combines personal reflection on life as an adoptive family with thoughts and comment pieces on issues surrounding adoption, the care system and child permanence.
adoptivedad.co.uk/..
1.6K ⋅2 posts / year ⋅ Dec 2020 Get Email Contact

6. Adopters for Adoption

England, UK
Adopters for Adoption is a baby and child adoption agency supporting people who want to become adoptive parents. Read current adoption news and find out about upcoming events from Adopters for Adoption online.
adoptersforadoptio..
2.7K⋅ 192 ⋅2 posts / quarter ⋅ Mar 2014 Get Email Contact

7. First4Adoption

UK
First4Adoption is the dedicated adoption information service for people interested in adopting a child in England.
first4adoption.org..
12.2K⋅ 7.2K ⋅ Jul 2015 Get Email Contact

8. Daddy and Dad

UK
We're Jamie and Tom - also known as Daddy and Dad, blogging gay dads of two boys via adoption. Our aim is to enlight prospective adopters about the adoption process, in particular the stuff that happens after the kids are placed with their adoptive parents (or 'move in' as our boys affectionately call it).
Also in LGBT Parenting Blogs, UK Gay Blogs
daddyanddad.co.uk/..
4.2K⋅ 7.3K⋅ 23.7K ⋅1 post / year ⋅ Aug 2014 Get Email Contact

9. Sally Donovan

Here you will find articles on adoption reform and therapeutic parenting to the online Social Work magazine Community Care. I occasionally speak in public about therapeutic parenting (the unofficial kind), self care, advocacy in education and post adoption support. Blog by Sally Donovan.
sallydonovan.co.uk
7K ⋅6 posts / year ⋅ Aug 2011 Get Email Contact

10. Diagrama Adoption

UK
Diagrama Fostering and Adoption seeks to find safe, loving homes for the most vulnerable children in care. Our mission is to help find vulnerable children in care a safe, loving environment to flourish in, so that they may lead fulfilling lives and achieve their ambitions without fear of exclusion.
diagramaadoption.o..
3.8K⋅ 911 ⋅2 posts / quarter ⋅ Oct 2016 Get Email Contact

11. Misadventures of an Adoptive Dad

An adoption blog following a adoptive father's story and process Adoption Dad and his adoptive family.
alcoates.co.uk
2.2K⋅ 9.3K ⋅2 posts / year ⋅ Sep 2013 Get Email Contact

12. And then there were four | tales from the land of adoption

England, UK
And Then There Were Four' is a emotional rollercoaster - sharing the emotional highs and too-tired-not-to-cry lows of creating a family through adoption.
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200⋅ 6.4K ⋅ Jan 2017 Get Email Contact

13. Mumdrah - Our adoption story

UK
Adoption stories: how to mop up pain, outwit rage, and change fate. How we came to be a family: two journeys become one. This site shares our adoption story, our insight, our trials and tribulations.
mumdrah.co.uk
1.4K ⋅ Feb 2013 Get Email Contact

14. Then We Were Four - Building Our Family Through Adoption

England, UK
We are a gay couple from the UK who have adopted two children. This blog is about our experiences right from the outset of the new adoption process and beyond. Since adopting we have started to write posts about adoption in general and how we have coped with events that may, at first, seem like normal situations but require different thinking to resolve.
thenwewerefour.co.uk
97⋅ 1.1K ⋅ Jul 2014 Get Email Contact

15. St. Francis' Children's Society

Milton Keynes, England, UK
St. Francis' Children's Society (SFCS) is a children's charity and adoption agency which seeks to make a difference to vulnerable children's lives by finding them permanent families. As well as finding new families for children awaiting adoption, we offer an extensive range of support services for adopters and their children, such as counselling, Theraplay® and family support events.
sfcs.org.uk/latest..
1.7K⋅ 1K ⋅1 post / quarter ⋅ Nov 2014 Get Email Contact

16. The Family of 5's Journey

Adoptive Mum to my 3 beautiful girls in the UK! This blog is about our adoption journey! This is the story of our family &how we became. There will be highs and lows, sadness & happiness with a twist of trauma and loss along the way. It was a beautiful hot sunny day in 2010 miles away from home. That was the day everything ended and began. That was the day that would change us, break us & make us.
thefamilyof5.wordp..
578⋅ 1.3K ⋅ May 2011 Get Email Contact

17. Hannah Meadows | resources and self-care for adoptive parents

UK
Blog by Hannah Meadows. I help adoptive parents look after themselves and find the practical resources they need so that they are equipped to help their families thrive.
hannahmeadows.com
1K ⋅ Jan 2015 Get Email Contact

18. Scotland's Adoption Register

Scotland's Adoption Register is a project funded by the Scottish Government and hosted by St Andrew's Children's Society. The Register has a remit to facilitate family finding across Scotland with the aim of increasing the numbers of children that are placed for adoption and to make the linking and matching process work as well as possible for children and prospective adopters .
scotlandsadoptionr..
132 ⋅ Dec 2016 Get Email Contact

19. Two Good Mums

UK
Many years ago, Laura's baby was removed from her care and adopted by Peggy. Here we share our journey of adoption; the milestones along the way, the wrong turns we might have taken, and how we gradually became traveling companions. Two Good Mums is our story. Little did we know that while we'd been merrily going our own way for over a decade, building our friendship over email and getting our families together every year, post-adoption contact had become a hot issue.
Also in UK Mom Blogs
twogoodmums.co.uk/..
913 ⋅1 post / quarter ⋅ Mar 2020 Get Email Contact

20. Two Poofs and a Pudding

England, UK
A blog about two gay men becoming parents via adoption. This is our journey to fatherhood and beyond.
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31.9K Get Email Contact