Adoption Counts
Support for adopters
Very few families get through life without support at different times and from different people and places. This is particularly true for adoptive families where even very young children can have a complex past, and specific needs that require additional specialist support.
Staff from Adoption Counts are here to help at every stage of your journey. We provide a wide and extensive range of adoption support services for adopters and their children.
Support for adopted adults
If you are an adopted adult and live in one of our five Local Authorities (Cheshire East, Manchester, Salford, Stockport, and Trafford) we can help you find out more about your birth family history.
This will involve supporting you to access your adoption records and providing information and advice about organisations that can help you to trace members of your birth family, if you make the decision to do so.
Please note: If you were adopted within the Adoption Counts area but are currently living outside of the region, you should seek advice from your current local authority or regional adoption agency who can further support your search.
Support for birth families
When a child is placed for adoption, a contact plan is made. This sets out how the child may remain in touch with birth parents, siblings or any significant members of their birth family. This can include sending letters, emails, photos or other plans such as meeting in person.
If you would like to review your contact plans, please get in touch with the Keeping in Touch (letterbox) team. The team will be able to advise you what we can do to support a voluntary arrangement between birth relatives and adoptive parent/s.
Who to contact
- Telephone
- 0161 521 8720 0161 521 8720
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adoptionenquiries@adoptioncounts.org.uk
- Website
- Adoption Counts
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Where to go
- Address
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Adoption Counts, Etrop Court
25 Rowlandsway
Wythenshawe
Manchester
- Postcode
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M22 5RGView M22 5RG on a map
Disclaimer
The role of this directory is to provide information; it is your responsibility to make sure that services are appropriate and meet your needs.
Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information provided in this directory, "we" (Manchester City Council) do not accept any responsibility or liability for any errors that have occurred or if the information provided is not up to date. "We" are also not responsible for the content of third party websites / emails listed in the information / records visible on this website.
It is recommended that you always check with providers that their service or organisation meets your requirements. We offer an impartial service and we cannot recommend or endorse any providers listed.
Background checks
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For that reason it is important that you carry out your own independent checks and verifications and are entirely satisfied before acting on the basis of any information or other material supplied in the website.
For advice on how to make your own appropriate checks and verifications please read the checklist information below.
Checklist
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Some of the organisations on the website are not required to be registered with regulatory bodies. Therefore it is important that you make sure that the service is safe and entirely suitable for your needs especially if it is related to children or vulnerable persons. Below are some of the things you need to look out for.
- Check that the staff have been appropriately vetted. For more information on this please visit DBS.gov.uk
- Check that the service has child protection procedures in place if they are directly involved with children.
- Check that the staff are qualified and trained in the specific area.
- Check that the service operates an anti-discriminatory practice.
- Check that the service protects children, young people and vulnerable adults where it is required to do so.
- Check that the service has a health and safety policy.
- Check that the service has a complaints procedure.
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