Public Seminars

This page lists our public seminars which are open to all parties affected by adoption and permanency, including professionals. Click on the course title or register tab to view detailed information. You can register via our electronic booking form and pay online. We are unable to take bookings or payments over the phone.

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PAC-UK 'BIG CONSULT 2022' Launch via Zoom

Free Event

Date: April 20, 2023

This FREE to attend event is open to all parties affected by adoption and permanency, including social workers and other professionals.

This major consultation by PAC-UK commissioned by the National Adoption Strategy Team (RAA programme funded by the DfE), surveyed people adopted since the 1950s and birth parents whose children have been adopted since 1990, the “modern” adoption period.

Over 600 adoptees and birth parents shared their experience and views on a range of adoption issues and how these have changed over time, including: contact, reunion, court, contemporary services, mental health, identity and more.

The event will start with an introduction from Sarah Johal MBE, National Adoption Strategic Lead. Mike Hancock, National Strategic Lead for PAC-UK, accompanied by some experts by experience, will present the key findings and ask where these leave contemporary discussions around contact, adoption services, identity and the future of adoption.

Event start time 12.00noon | Event end time 1.00pm (a Zoom link will be sent to all attendees once registration is completed)

Availability: Spaces remaining.

PAC-UK Training service user feedback

I wish more people would access trainings like this.Mental health professional

The trainer was fantastic. Her insights so helpful... I was left wanting more.Teacher

More training like this please!Social worker

Brilliant and amazingly informative. I now have the confidence that the adoption is going to work.Prospective adopter

Excellent day. Really beneficial.Adoptive parent

Very impressed by the quality and the eloquence of the trainer. I feel very hopeful now. An excellent and informative day.Adoptive parent

Thank you. And thank goodness!Adoptive parent

Thanks for putting on the super 'Let's take it from the top' training. It was a really inspiring day that helped to make better sense of what some of our children and families are struggling with.Social worker