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
Scottish
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.
Finding out more about adoption
Read a list of literature and videos on adoption, including 'Relatively Unknown',
a compilation of accounts and experiences that has been produced to tell a wider
public about the Adoption Contact Register for Scotland.
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