Birthlink (formerly Family Care Incorporated) is a registered adoption service under Section 2(11)(b) of the Regulation of Care ( Scotland ) Act 2001, which provides a specialised post adoption service.
Aims:
To enhance the well-being and promote the welfare of all people affected by adoptions formalised in Scotland , the provision of assistance to local authorities in the fulfillment of their statutory responsibilities towards adopted persons and their families and the development of a comprehensive strategy on post adoption service provision across Scotland.
Birthlink recognises the need for service user involvement in the planning and development of services and encourages a culture of listening that enables service users to influence decisions about the services they receive; and how these services are developed.
Service users are adopted adults, birth parents of people adopted as children and their families, adoptive families, local authorities and voluntary adoption agencies. Other social care and health professionals may contact the service for advice.
Birthlink also provides a service to people who had been in the care of the City of Edinburgh Council .
Birthlink is regulated by the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care and has an annual inspection and report which can be viewed on request at our office at 21 Castle Street, Edinburgh and online below;
Care
Commission report - February 2010
(1.1Mb).
Help
out our Thrift Shops
We are looking for a few local people willing and able to uplift
unwanted items from Birthlink Thrift shops and take to council
dump on a rota basis. Please call Jennifer Bryson on 0131 225
6441 for further details.
Watch
a video about Norcap on ITV's 'This Morning' programme
Watch Pam Hodgkins on 'This Morning',
about setting up the charity, Norcap, which supports adults
whose lives have been affected by adoption.
Thrift
Shops
Visit or donate
goods for one of our two Edinburgh shops.
Publications
Guides, books and videos
available with information on adoption.
