Our work

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BAAF have been supporting, advising and campaigning for better outcomes for children in care for over 30 years. We work with everyone involved with adoption and fostering across the UK. Our regional and country offices in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, provide services to meet the needs of some of the UK’s most vulnerable children and young people.

BAAF is registered as a Voluntary Adoption Agency and Adoption Support Agency with Ofsted. View our Statement of Purpose (PDF). In our most recent Ofsted inspection in May 2011 we were voted 'Outstanding' in every category. Read the full report here.

What we do

Family Finding

BAAF’s family finding services cover the whole of the UK. We specialise in finding parents for those children who wait longest including sibling groups, older children, children with disabilities and BME children.

Membership

We are the UK's leading membership organisation for agencies and individuals that have an interest in fostering, adoption and the well-being of children.

Training, conferences and consultancy

Our training, seminars and conferences tackle the vital issues facing practitioners today and our courses and programmes are available nationwide.

Campaigning

We campaign nationally and locally to improve the lives of children seperated from their birth families. Our flagship campaign is National Adoption Week, which runs in November every year.

Advice

Every day our members ask BAAF for expert guidance to support their work. We also receive thousands of calls each year from people who need advice about all aspects of adoption and fostering.

Publications

We publish an extensive list of highly respected expert publications for social workers, adoptive parents, foster carers, children, adopted adults, students and academics, and the wider children’s workforce.

Projects

Adoption Activity Days

These are events where prospective adopters have the opportunity to meet a range of children who need adoptive placements.

British Chinese Adoption Study

Research to follow up the experiences of over 100 women who were brought to the UK from orphanages in Hong Kong in the 1960s for adoption by British families.

KEEP

KEEP standard is a 16-week support group programme designed for mainstream foster and kinship carers who have children placed with them aged between five and twelve years.

BAAF's Black and Minority Ethnic Perspectives project

Promotes wider understanding of black minority ethnic children in the public care system in the UK.

Opening Doors

This project is to identify and reduce the barriers that prevent disabled children from finding permanent families.

The Triangle Project

The Triangle Project will work throughout England to enable children to find the loving and stable homes they so deserve and enable them to have the best possible start in life.