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.
Making contact with an adopted adult (over 18)
Adoption Counts does not offer an intermediary service. We can offer a limited service to relatives and significant people (such as foster carers) who wish to know more about an adopted person, if that person was adopted after 30th December 2005. This is with the adopted person’s permission and may incur a fee.
Other ways to contact an adopted person or birth relative
Adopted people and birth relatives can add themselves to the Adoption Contact Register at the General Register Office to both look for a birth relative or an adopted person or to say you don’t want to be contacted. For a connection to be made between people, you must both be on the Adoption Contact Register.
