professionals



Scotland’s Adoption Register



Scotland’s Adoption Register



Scotland’s adoption 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. There are a number of family finding services provided at no cost to agencies



Adoption week 2019 - Presentations



As part of Adoption Week 2019 there was a Practitioner’s Workshop which looked at : mapping adoption

TESSA project (AUK)

therapeutic life story work


you can access the presentations from the day here.



adoption fostering
alliance scotland



An emphasis is placed in all AFA Scotland’s work on the need for a multi-disciplinary approach that enables social workers, lawyers, health professionals and educators to work effectively across professional boundaries in order to meet the needs of children and their carers. As a membership organisation, AFA Scotland helps to give agencies and individual members a national and regional voice and contributes to the development of policy and practice at a local and national level.


The Adoption and Fostering Alliance (AFA) Scotland an independent, charitable organisation dedicated to improving outcomes for children in care by providing support to all those working in the field of adoption, fostering and the care of looked after children. AFA Scotland provides services in collaboration with CoramBAAF.



Adopter and child led
matching events.



Opportunities to bring prospective adopters into direct contact with information about some of the children who are waiting for a new forever family are done through Adoption exchange days and adoption activity days


more info

AFA Scotland Training
and Events



AFA Scotland Learning Zone media and content to help you understand some of the complexities of the adoption and fostering landscape and where we can help you.


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This website was funded by the Scottish Government has been developed by Adoption UK in Scotland, Adoption and Fostering Alliance Scotland and Scotland’s Adoption Register