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WHAT WE DO |
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Andrew’s Children’s Society is a voluntary adoption and foster care
agency based in Edinburgh and operating within a 60 mile radius
of Scotland’s capital city. |
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| ADOPTION |
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| We place vulnerable and needy children with new adoptive parents. These
children range in age from 0 to about 10 years of age. We therefore look to approve couples or single people of all ages, religious and ethnic backgrounds who may be able to offer a loving and secure home to a wide range of children. We are always looking for people who would be prepared to parent sibling groups of children because we know how important it is to attempt to keep children from the same birth family together. |
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| Our Safebase Parenting Programme, introduced in 2010, aims to educate parents about attachment difficulties and help them better understand themselves and their children. This programme offers parents long-term support by providing online resources and access to ongoing links through family days, helplines and a worker when needed. For further details please click the link to the right. |
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| FOSTER CARE |
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| We provide loving and caring foster homes for children who have been traumatised by neglectful and sometimes abusive early life experiences. There are many children for whom adoption may not be the plan but who need to be cared for by families other than their birth families. This could be for short periods in order to see if a child could return to their birth family or it could be until the child becomes an adult. We are also looking for people who could take children into their homes for short but regular intervals (perhaps one weekend a month and sometime during school holidays) to give them and their families a break. |
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| ADOPTION SUPPORT |
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We support and advise adopters throughout the childhood of their adopted son or daughter and into adulthood when necessary.
We help adopted children keep in touch with their birth family when appropriate through the exchange of information and sometimes by direct contact. We offer counselling and support to all birth family members whose lives have been affected by the adoption of a child. We also offer counselling and support to adopted adults who want to understand the circumstances of their adoption. We support adopted adults and their birth families to trace each other when this is appropriate. |
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| PREGNANCY COUNSELLING |
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| We offer counselling and support to pregnant women considering adoption for their child. The focus on this counselling work is to help mothers consider the best course of action for them and their child. Usually they decide that they have the strength to parent their child but occasionally we will look to place their child in an adoptive family that will best suit his or her needs. |
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Ring us on 0131 454 3370 for further information. |
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