Being an Adoption Panel Member

Hear from Pete, one of YAA’s Panel Members, this National Volunteer’s Week.

We adopted our wonderful daughter, through YAA, in 2004.

I joined Panel simply to help more kids get loving forever families…

Want to know more?

Join us for our ChatAdopt session and speak to the team as well as an experienced adopter.

In person: Tuesday, 25th June, 7pm Virtual: Wednesday, 10th July, 7pm

Ready to start today? Request our presentation or simply give us a call and start your adoption journey now.

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Proudly creating loving families since 1946

UK adoption

We support you every step of the way and family find across the UK.

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Inter country adoption (ICA)

Advice for parents looking to adopt from overseas.

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Adoption support

Adoption is a lifelong commitment. We provide ongoing support to adopters.

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About us

Established in 1946, Yorkshire Adoption Agency has an excellent reputation. We work hard to support, assess, train, and approve adoptive parents. We also take great care in matching our adopters to children who are waiting, wherever they live.

As a voluntary adoption agency, we maintain good local partnerships but also work across the UK to make sure we match our adopters to the right children for them.

We are a welcoming organisation. Our adopters say it is great that we have a consistent and supportive staff team who go the extra mile.

Did you know? Last year 80% of our adopters had a match within 6 months.

Start your journey

Whether you are just wondering about adoption, have some questions or want to start the journey today, we are ready for you.

Our ChatAdopt sessions give you a brief insight into the adoption journey and will answer all of your questions. We will also have an adopter present to give you the chance to speak to someone who has already adopted and find out how it went for them.

Next ‘ChatAdopt ‘

In person: Tuesday, 25th June, 7pm Virtual: Wednesday, 10th July, 7pm

Ready to start today? Request our presentation or simply give us a call and start your adoption journey now.

Start your journey

The children waiting for adoption

Children who are unable to live and grow up with their birth families often need adoptive homes. The children have a wide range of backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, heritages and experiences and are all in need of safe, loving adoptive homes.

In the last year, 2,960 children were adopted in England.

Some children can wait longer to find their adoptive families, many from brother and sister groups, school age children, children with additional needs and those from black and other global majority communities. These children represent approximately 60% of all the children waiting to be adopted.