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WHAT
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St
Andrew’s Children’s Society is a voluntary adoption
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 children with adoptive families when
it is clear that they can not be cared for by their birth families. 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 backgrounds
and ethnic cultures 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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| FOSTER
CARE |
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| 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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Many of the adoptive families we place children with will require ongoing contact and support from us and we attempt to work with these families to help them to deal with difficulties as their children grow up. We have regular contact from adults who were adopted as children and want to talk about their adoptions or to find out more about the circumstances of their adoption and may even wish to trace birth family relatives. We provide support and counselling to these people and assist them in their search. An increasing number of birth mothers, some birth fathers and birth
siblings are contacting us to enquire about a relative who was adopted
and although we are limited in what we can do for such people we can
offer an understanding and empathy in our counselling work with them. |
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| PREGNANCY
COUNSELLING |
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| As mentioned earlier there are far fewer pregnant
women seeking out adoption as an alternative to keeping their babies but
we do still work with a few a year. The focus on this counselling work
is to help them 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 of her needs. |
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Ring us on 0131 454 3370 for further information. |
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