5 Torriano Mews
Torriano Avenue
London
NW5 2RZ

Tel (Advice line): 020 7284 5879 (10.00am - 1.00pm Monday - Friday, 5.30pm - 7.30pm Thursday)
Tel (Office): 020 7284 0555
Web: www.pac.org.uk

PAC offers advice, information and support to anyone involved in adoption and other forms of permanent care, including:

• Adoptive families and other families with permanently placed children
• Prospective adoptive /permanent placement parents
• Individual adults adopted or otherwise permanently placed as children
• Birth parents and relatives of adopted or other permanently placed children, and of adults who were adopted or permanently placed as children
• Professionals working in adoption and permanent care

PAC's services include:

• Telephone Advice Line, staffed by qualified and experienced PAC counsellors, and which serves as the first port of call for all of PAC's services
• Consultation to explore any issues around adoption and permanent placement and discuss how PAC can help
• Assessment of: support needs for all parties to adoption and permanent placement; children's attachment, emotional and behavioural difficulties; parenting issues; adult attachment patterns; contact needs and arrangements; and for court requests
• Counselling/ therapy: individual counselling (face to face or via telephone); parent/s and couple counselling (pre and post-placement); early placement support (at home or at PAC); intensive therapeutic work with families; intermediary service
• Workshops, groups and seminars for all parties to adoption and permanent care
• Regular drop-in for birth mothers whose children have been compulsorily removed
• Professional consultation and training

PAC's counsellors are professionally qualified in counselling/psychological therapy, psychology and/or social work and have a wide range of experience and training in all aspects of adoption and permanent placement. Counselling staff are supported by external professional supervisors and administrative staff.

PAC has particular expertise in working with minority ethnic children, families and adults and with transracially adopted children and adults.

PAC's services are available on weekdays at its main office in Kentish Town, London. Alternatively, individual adult counselling, parent consultations and professional consultations are offered on a monthly basis at venues in a number of local authority areas across London and the south east.

Residents of local authorities that have a contract with PAC can access certain services free of charge. For further information visit PAC's website or call the Advice Line.

PAC is an independent charity and its service is confidential. PAC is registered with Ofsted under the Care Standards Act 2000 as an Adoption Support Agency. In 2011 PAC received a quality rating of 'outstanding' from Ofsted.