Finding Out More

Useful Websites

The links below will take you to a number of other websites* with useful information about adoption:

Adoption UK - organisation helping to make adoptions work, promoting loving and supporting relationships between children and their adoptive families
Barnado's - a national charity helping the most vulnerable children and young people transform their lives and fulfil their potential
The Children's Society - helping children and young people tackle the problems they face
DirectGov - online information about public services from the UK Government's Website
Fostering Network - organisation which ensures that fostered children receive the highest standards of care
The Who Cares? Trust - national charity working to improve public care for children and young people who are separated from their birth families.

Further links to local and national organisations and support groups, can be viewed here.

*Leicestershire County Council is not responsible for the content and services provided on external websites.

We've found the following books very helpful - many of them written by adoptive parents. They should be available through your local public library.

Jennifer Lord: Adopting a child - a guide for people interested in adoption.
Publisher: BAAF 2002 ISBN 1-903699-06-1
Lois Ruskai Melina: Raising adopted children: practical reassuring advice for every adoptive parent.
Publisher: New York, Harper Collins World, rev.ed. 1999; ISBN: 006095774

You can also check the Online Library Catalogue to see if the book is available in a Leicestershire or Rutland library.