DFW Adoption is a registered charity, a Not for Profit organisation based in Durham operating throughout the North East of England. We find adoptive parents for children from many different backgrounds who cannot be brought up within their own families.

Welcome to DFW Adoption - Finding Families For Children in the North East

  • We find adoptive parents for children from many different ethnic backgrounds who cannot be brought up within their own families.
  • We provide preparation, training and support to adoptive parents and their children at every stage of the adoption process.
  • We offer a specialist service to adopted people who wish to find information about their original family.
  • We provide advice and support to birth relatives of adopted people.
  • We can advise people wishing to trace their birth relatives placed through adoption.
  • We operate a weekly duty system offering skilled advice and will provide information about accessing external search and reunion services.
  • We cover the whole of the North East of England

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Thank you to everyone in the Diocese of Durham, Community groups and individuals for their generous donations and support for the work of DFW Adoption. We always appreciate donations towards the work of DFW Adoption and if you wish to make a donation please click on the link below.

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Press release from the Consortium of Voluntary Adoption Agencies (CVAA)

DFW Adoption is a member of the CVAA alongside 31 other VAAs in the UK. CVAA welcomes the current government focus and commitment to adoption as one of a range of options for achieving security and stability for children in care, where they cannot be raised within their family of birth Read More

Adoption Action Plan for Tackling Delay

Information about the Government's adoption action plan - which sets out a range of proposals to speed up the process for children, to overhaul the service for prospective adopters and to strengthen local accountability for the timeliness of adoption services. Read More

The need for effective post-adoption parenting training. (Article by Dave Harrop published in The Guardian - Tuesday 13 March 2012).

An agency in Durham has started running parenting training to provide support for families who have adopted Read More