About the Scottish Adoption Alliance
The Scottish Adoption Alliance is a national coalition working to improve adoption support, strengthen policy and ensure adoptive families and adopted people are not left to manage complex challenges alone.
We believe Scotland needs an adoption support system that is consistent, specialist, transparent and built around the lifelong needs of adopted people and their families.
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Our purpose
The Alliance exists to:
- Explain the adoption support crisis in Scotland.
- Present evidence and research in an accessible way.
- Track Scottish Government commitments and progress.
- Promote practical solutions and reform.
- Connect organisations, professionals, families and lived experience voices.
- Influence policy through constructive, evidence-led advocacy.
Our approach
We are evidence-led, collaborative, reform-focused, respectful and Scotland-focused.
We use data, research and lived experience to inform our work. We bring people together across sectors and communities.
We campaign for structural change, not short-term fixes.
What we are not…
The Alliance is not a fundraising campaign and does not replace direct support services. Our role is to build a shared platform for reform, accountability, learning and national coordination.
The Scottish Adoption Alliance was brought together by an adoptive parent and Scottish lead for PATCH (Passionate Adopters Targeting Change with Hope).
After experiencing an adoption breakdown and pursuing legal action over failures in post-adoption support, they realised their family’s experience was not unique. Across Scotland, too many adoptive families were facing similar challenges, often struggling to access the specialist support they needed when family life reached crisis point.
Rather than accepting that as normal, they started picking up the phone, writing emails and asking questions. Those conversations led to more conversations, connecting adoptive families, adopted people, professionals, charities, academics and policymakers from across Scotland.
The Scottish Adoption Alliance is the result of those conversations. A growing network of people who recognise that Scotland has no dedicated Adoption Support Fund, that support remains inconsistent across the country, and that meaningful change will only happen through collaboration. By bringing together lived experience, professional expertise and evidence, the Alliance aims to help build a more consistent, compassionate and effective system of support for adopted children and their families.
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