The Buckinghamshire Adoption Partnership will bring together adoption professionals from Buckinghamshire Council and Parents and Children Together (PACT) as a Regional Adoption Agency. It will provide expertise and support for children, adoptive parents, birth families and adopted adults.
Our partnership
Working together to provide adoption services in Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire Council has awarded the contract for its new regional adoption agency (RAA) partner to the adoption charity Parents and Children Together (PACT).
The move is part of the Department for Education’s (DfE) regionalisation of adoption services in England.
Teams from both organisations are now working on establishing the partnership and combining each agency’s best practice as well as seeking feedback from adopters and adopted people to shape and influence the direction of the Buckinghamshire Adoption Partnership for its planned launch in January 2024.
Buckinghamshire Council
Buckinghamshire Council is a unitary authority covering the county of Buckinghamshire (excluding Milton Keynes). With a population of over 500,000 people, the council was formed in April 2020, replacing the former Buckinghamshire County Council and districts of South Bucks, Chilterns, Wycombe and Aylesbury Vale.
Our Children's Social Care Teams support families in the community and where it is not safe for children to remain at home, we will find permanent families for them.
Some of these children will have a plan of adoption and will be placed with adopters approved by Buckinghamshire Council and other adoption agencies. Buckinghamshire Council also has a statutory responsibility to provide support services to those affected by adoption. Adoptees, Adopters and Birth Families.
Contact us about adoption
Contact Buckinghamshire Council about adoption:
Adoption Enquiries: 01494 586 349
Post Adoption Support: 01494 586 626
Email: [email protected]
Use our AdoptionReady tool to create a personalised plan of things you can do to get ready for adoption.
Parents And Children Together (PACT)
Parents And Children Together (PACT) is an adoption and trauma support charity which has been building and strengthening families since 1911.
With offices in Reading and London, PACT provides adoption services across southern and central England. It creates families by recruiting, assessing and approving people who want to become parents through adoption and matches them with children looking for their permanent, loving home. PACT provides specialist adoption support to all its families for life.
PACT are a non-profit making charity that relies on fundraising and donations to be able to provide its vital trauma-informed support to families, women and children through its services including the Alana House Community Project for women and its Bounce Back 4 Kids programme.
PACT provides specialist adoption support to all its families for life.
Contact PACT
Contact PACT:
- on 0300 456 4800
- by using their online enquiry form