PAC-UK brings together a multi-disciplinary team of more than 100 staff and volunteers with an extensive range of skills and expertise in working therapeutically with children, adoptive families, other permanent carers, adopted adults and birth parents. We offer the following key services:
Advice Line staffed by qualified and experienced PAC-UK counsellors who can provide advice and information o
n all aspects of adoption and other forms of permanent care;
A range of Adopted Adult Services for adults adopted or otherwise permanently placed as children, including advice, counselling, access to adoption records, searching and intermediary services;
A Birth Parent & Birth Relatives Service providing a range of advice, counselling, intermediary services and groups for birth parents and other birth relatives;
A Child & Family Service offering support, counselling and therapy to adoptive families or those with a permanently placed child, including Special Guardians and Kinship Carers;
An Education Service working with children, parents and schools to improve the educational experience of adopted/permanently-placed children;
A Training Service offering a comprehensive training programme focussing on topics specific to adoption and permanent placement. Some of these workshops and seminars are for professionals only, and some are specifically for parents and carers. We have partnerships with 77 local authorities stretching from Northumberland and York in the north to Haringey and Essex in the south; and in total more than 100 local authorities benefit from our expertise every year.
