PAC-UK: Adoption Services
PAC-UK is the country’s largest independent Adoption Support Agency. From offices in London and Leeds we reach out to families and professionals from the Scottish borders to the south coast.
Our vision is that all those affected by adoption, Special Guardianship and other forms of permanent care are supported and enabled to live their lives to the full. We have built our expertise over a 37 year period, starting out as Post-Adoption Centre in 1986. In recent years we have combined with other specialist providers to produce a more robust organisation with a wider reach and a more comprehensive range of services.
Entering adoption, Special Guardianship or another permanent placement is an important step forward in a child’s life. At PAC-UK we understand that this is the beginning of a life-long journey, not just for the child, but also for the adoptive/permanent care family and the birth family left behind. Our support extends to all these groups, and includes adults adopted as children who continue to find difficulties arising on their own life journey. We also offer advice to professionals working with these families.
We offer the following key services:
- Advice Line staffed by qualified and experienced PAC-UK counsellors
- A range of Adopted Adult Services for adults adopted or otherwise permanently placed as children
- A Birth Parent and Birth Relatives Service providing a range of advice, counselling, intermediary services
- A Child and Family Service offering support, counselling and therapy to adoptive families
- A Child to Parent Violence Service offering a broad range of specialist CPV services for parents, carers and professionals;
- An Education Service working with children, parents and schools to improve the educational experience of adopted/permanently-placed children.
- A Private Intermediary Service providing specialist support to adult adoptees
- A Training Service offering a comprehensive training programme focussing on topics specific to adoption and permanent placement.
We have partnerships with 80 local authorities stretching from Northumberland and York in the north to Haringey and Essex in the south. In total more than 100 local authorities benefit from our expertise every year.
Who to contact
- Contact Name
- National PAC-UK Advice Line
- Contact Position
- Advice Line Worker
- Telephone
- 0300 1800 090 0300 1800 090 0300 1800 085 0300 1800 085
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advice@pac-uk.org
- Website
- PAC-UK
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Where to go
- Name
- PAC-UK
- Address
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Hollyshaw House
2 Hollyshaw Lane
Leeds
- Postcode
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LS15 7BDView LS15 7BD on a map
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