274 Bath Street
Glasgow
G2 4JR

Tel: 0141 332 8371
Web: www.stmargaretsadoption.org.uk

St Margaret's Children and Family Care Society is a voluntary adoption agency which specialises in all aspects of adoption. The Society's core task is the recruitment and approval of couples who wish to adopt.

The Society provides support to families immediately after an adoption order has been granted, and often in later life, if teenagers and parents feel the need for further support or counselling.

They offer intensive support to young women who are considering relinquishing their child for adoption. At the point where a young woman is considering adoption, they offer counselling to her, to her partner, and to her family. They provide support if she feels the need to return to them at any point in later life.

They also provide an origins counselling service for those who have been adopted and who wish to undertake a search of their birth parents.

The Society also offers a Letter Box contact service, and some families will exchange photographs and a letter, usually once a year. This is an invaluable service for those birth parents who participate. It can also be a help to adoptive parents as their child grows up. Rather than trying to find the “right time” to tell a child of their adoption, the child grows up knowing she or he is adopted.