Care Connect - Helping adults connect with their past

Care Connect helps adults who have been in care to find information about their past or trace estranged family members.

The service is available to all adults who have been in care and have been out of local authority care for more than five years (help is available directly from the care record-holder for those people who have been out of care for less than five years - contact your local City of Edinburgh Council Social Work Centre for advice).

Adults who have been in care can have similar needs to people who were adopted, perhaps with issues of identity or looking for more information about their families of origin.

Care Connect will:

• arrange access to records held by the local authority
• share the details of resulting information and offer help in making sense of this
• help in tracing and contacting family members and act as a go-between if the wish for contact is two-way

Care Connect is run by Birthlink who offer a range of services for people separated by adoption with a Scottish connection. It runs Scotland 's only adoption contact register - a computerised database that looks to link adopted people, birth parents and birth siblings.

For more information please read the Care Connect leaflet (PDF) at the City of Edinburgh Council website.
















Birthlink welcomes Lorraine Kelly as patron

Lorraine KellyScottish television presenter, Lorraine Kelly, has kindly agreed to be the patron of Birthlink.

Read what Lorraine has to say about Birthlink and being our patron.

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