Introduction
The guidance below has been compiled to help people affected by the issues being investigated by the Truth Recovery Independent Panel in accessing adoption records relating to them.
Legal provision for adoption was introduced in Northern Ireland in 1931. From that time the public welfare authorities as well as voluntary agencies associated with different religious denominations were involved in the arrangement of adoptions. Adoption orders, which were made by the courts, transferred responsibility for the adopted child from their birth parents to their adopted parents.
The public welfare authorities and voluntary agencies involved in organising adoptions were obliged to maintain records, and these records, which are now held by the Health and Social Care Trusts (‘HSC Trusts’) and the three surviving voluntary adoption agencies, contain valuable information for adopted people and birth relatives.
The Department of Health has issued detailed guidance to HSC Trusts and voluntary agencies on how to deal with applications for adoption records, and the Independent Panel hopes that this guidance will ensure a uniform approach in decision-making so that people affected have full access to the records to which they are entitled by law.
Legal Advice and Assistance in Accessing Records
The Legal Services Agency Northern Ireland (‘LSANI’) operates a publicly funded legal advice and assistance service. The service can be accessed through almost any solicitors’ office in Northern Ireland. The Law Society of Northern Ireland maintains a directory of solicitors you can use to find a solicitor if you don’t already have one.
The LSANI’s legal advice and assistance service covers almost any point of Northern Irish law, including the law relating to access to records. Solicitors can write letters on your behalf, including letters to people, organisations or bodies which hold records relating to you.
The legal advice and assistance service is means-tested, which means that it is only available to people who have income or assets below a particular level. You will need to provide a solicitor with information about your income to find out if you are eligible. Financial eligibility is decided based on your disposable income and assets during the week before your initial meeting. Based on a solicitor’s assessment, LSANI will decide whether you are eligible or not.
If you are eligible for legal advice and assistance, you may still be required to make a financial contribution.
The Truth Recovery Independent Panel has recommended to the Northern Ireland Executive that the means test be disapplied to applications for advice and assistance relating to access to records relating to its investigation. Disapplication of the means test would require legislative amendment, and this is under consideration.
Obtaining Your Original Birth Certificate
For adopted people, the first step in accessing adoption records is often to obtain a copy of your original birth certificate. People adopted in Northern Ireland who are at least 18 years of age may obtain a copy of their original birth certificate by applying to the General Register Office for Northern Ireland (‘GRONI’).
The process by which you can apply for your original birth certificate is different depending on when you were adopted and whether you already know your original birth details, including your birth name, name of your birth mother and birth father, if he is named on the registration. This is because, before 1987, birth parents and adoptive parents were sometimes led to believe that the children being adopted would never be able to find out their original names or the names of their birth parents.
People Adopted Before 18 December 1987
If you were adopted in Northern Ireland before 18 December 1987 and you do not know your birth details, you will be required, before applying for your original birth certificate, to have a meeting with a social worker — called a post-adoption counsellor — within the adoption team in a HSC Trust or a voluntary adoption agency. On the basis of your application form, GRONI will send the social worker information from your adoption court order. This will include your original name and typically the name of your birth mother and sometimes the name of your father, as well as the name of the court where the order was made. On the basis of this information, you can apply to GRONI for your original birth certificate. If you were born in another part of the UK or Ireland, a form will be provided by GRONI so that you can apply to the relevant General Registrar Office to obtain your original birth certificate.
The post adoption counsellor will also receive a form enabling them to apply to the courts for information regarding the adoption such as the HSC Trust or agency who arranged the adoption.
If you were adopted in Northern Ireland before the 18 December 1987 and you already know your birth details, you will not be required to have a meeting with a social worker and you can apply directly to GRONI for a copy of your original birth certificate.
If you know your original birth details, but your post adoption counsellor requires the form from GRONI to apply to the courts, you will still have to complete the application form.
People Adopted on or After 18 December 1987
If you were adopted in Northern Ireland on or after 18 December 1987, you can apply to GRONI for your birth records using this application form. You will have a choice whether to see a post-adoption counsellor or not. If you choose not to see a counsellor, GRONI will simply send you an application form with which you can apply for your birth certificate.
If you were born in another part of the UK or Ireland, a form will be provided by GRONI so that you can apply to the relevant General Registrar Office to obtain your original birth certificate. You will also receive a form enabling you to apply to the courts for information regarding the adoption, such as the HSC Trust or agency who arranged the adoption.
If you choose for the information to be sent to a post-adoption counsellor, then they will receive the relevant information and forms.
If you know your original birth details, but your post adoption counsellor requires the form from GRONI to apply to the courts, you will still have to complete the application form.
Contacting GRONI
GRONI is located within the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and its contact details are as follows:
GRONI
Colby House
Stranmillis Court
Belfast
BT9 5RR
Email: gro_nisra@finance-ni.gov.uk
Tel: 0300 200 7890
Locating Other Records Relating to an Adoption
Most Northern Ireland adoption records are now held by HSC Trusts, as statutory adoption agencies, and/or by voluntary adoption agencies. Who holds the records depends on the agency responsible for organising the adoption.
There are five HSC Trusts in Northern Ireland, and each covers a particular geographical area.
Two of Northern Ireland’s voluntary adoption agencies also hold historic adoption records, having taken over the records of earlier agencies which no longer exist.
Information on which HSC Trust adoption agency and/or voluntary adoption agency holds records in relation to your adoption will be in the records of the court which made the adoption order.
Which HSC Trust Adoption Agency or Voluntary Adoption Agency Holds Your Records?
You may already be aware which HSC Trust adoption agency or voluntary adoption agency holds the records relating to your adoption.
If you do not have this information and you have a post-adoption counsellor, your counsellor will apply to the relevant court for information about which HSC Trust adoption agency or voluntary adoption agency holds the records in relation to your adoption.
If you do not have this information and do not have a post-adoption counsellor, you will need to apply to GRONI for access to the original birth entry. Depending on when you were adopted, this information may have to be sent to the nominated post- adoption counsellor.
GRONI is located within the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and its contact details are as follows:
GRONI
Colby House
Stranmillis Court
Belfast
BT9 5RR
Email: gro_nisra@finance-ni.gov.uk
Tel: 0300 200 7890
Adoption Records Held by Health and Social Care Trusts
In Northern Ireland, health services and social services are the responsibility of the Department of Health, which delivers them through a system called Health and Social Care. Health and Social Care is organised across six Trusts, five of which have responsibility for service delivery in particular regions across Northern Ireland, and one of which, the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Trust, operates an ambulance service.
Among the functions of the five regional HSC Trusts are adoption and foster care. There is a regional fostering and adoption service in Belfast, and local adoption and fostering teams in each of the five HSC Trusts. This map shows the areas covered by each HSC Trust.
The adoption and fostering teams, while responsible for current fostering placements and adoptions, also hold records for past individual care placements and adoptions in Northern Ireland that took place within their areas of responsibility.
Adoption Records Held by Voluntary Adoption Agencies
In addition to the records held by HSC Trusts, records relating to adoptions in Northern Ireland may also be held by two of the voluntary adoption agencies. These agencies now hold the records of agencies, organisations and institutions historically involved in the organisation of adoptions, and particularly those associated with the Catholic Church and the Church of Ireland.
Family Care Adoption Services
Family Care Adoption Services is a registered voluntary adoption agency based in Belfast. Today, its primary activity relates to the organisation of adoptions. In addition to the records of adoptions undertaken by the agency itself, Family Care Adoption Services holds or can access records relating to many Catholic agencies, organisations and institutions involved in adoptions which have ceased operation.
The records held by Family Care Adoption Services are:
St Joseph's Baby Home / Institution, Ravenhill Road, Belfast;
Mater Dei Hostel, Antrim Road, Belfast;
Mater Misericordia Adoption Society;
Down & Connor Catholic Family Welfare Society;
Derry Diocesan Child Welfare and Adoption Society;
Boarding out (fostering) records from Diocese of Down & Connor Diocesan Orphan Society.
Family Care Adoption Services currently has a Data Processing Agreement with the Good Shepherd Sisters and has access to the records of the institutions run by them.
The Good Shepherd Sisters records that Family Care Adoption Services have access to are:
Marianville Mother and Baby Institution, Ormeau Road, Belfast;
Marianvale Mother and Baby Institution, Newry;
St Mary’s Home / Laundry, Belfast;
St Mary’s Home / Laundry, Derry/Londonderry;
St Mary’s Home / Laundry, Newry.
Adoption Routes
Adoption Routes is a registered voluntary adoption agency based in Belfast. Today, its primary activity relates to the organisation of adoptions. In addition to the records it holds in relation to the adoptions it has organised, it also holds records relating to many Church of Ireland agencies, organisations and institutions involved in adoptions which have ceased operation, including, for example:
The Church of Ireland Rescue League;
The Church of Ireland Moral Welfare Association;
The Church of Ireland Social and Family Welfare Association;
The Church of Ireland Board for Social Responsibility;
Hopedene Hostel, Belfast; and
Kennedy House, Belfast.
What Do the Adoption Records of HSC Trusts and Voluntary Agencies Contain?
The HSC Trusts and voluntary agencies hold adoption records for adoptions dating back to the 1940s and, in some cases, even earlier.
The amount of information contained in adoption records can vary. Files may contain a single sheet or many documents. Before statutory recording was enforced, record keeping was often sparse. It is important to be prepared for the possibility that, in some cases, records may have been lost or destroyed. Records sometimes contain information of a potentially upsetting nature, for example, unkind, harsh and unfair descriptions of family members.
Information contained in adoption records may include:
- Original birth name of adopted adult.
- Place of birth.
- Weight at birth.
- Medical notes.
- Mother’s name and address at the time of birth.
- Social characteristics of biological mother such as ethnicity, height, appearance, education / employment, family background (potentially including details of other children or siblings).
- Possible inclusion of names, descriptions and addresses of other family members.
- Information about birth fathers, if included in the records, tends to be less specific and detailed than information about birth mothers.
- Agency case notes and social worker reports prior to adoption finalisation.
- Letters and legal documents, including court records and orders.
- Home circumstances of adoptive parents.
- Circumstances / reason for adoption recorded by agency or social workers.
- Foster or other carers prior to the adoption – for those who were in care prior to adoption there may be information regarding this period, including medical information and possibly photographs.
Systems of Access to Adoption Records
Once you know which HSC Trust and / or voluntary adoption agency holds the records relating to your adoption, you can apply to them for access to the records.
Access to adoption records is governed by the Adoption Agencies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989. Under these regulations, each adoption agency has discretion to provide access to its case records and disclose information, for the purposes of carrying out its functions as an adoption agency. In addition to adopted people, birth parents or adoptive parents, other people affected by an adoption, close family members for example, are also eligible to apply for information held about them. It is important to note that the discretion available to adoption agencies is not absolute, and must be exercised in line with other rules, including UK data protection law and the Human Rights Act 1998.
You can also seek access to adoption records by making a Subject Access Request under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (‘UK GDPR’). You can only do this in relation to documents that contain your own personal data. It is unusual for there to be two ways of accessing records, and it is anticipated that the law will shortly be changed so that adoption records held by HSC Trust adoption agencies and voluntary adoption agencies will be provided for under the Adoption Agencies Regulations (Northern Ireland)1989 only.
Whether you apply for your records under the system specific to adoption records or make a Subject Access Request under the general data protection system is your choice. However, if you decide to make a Subject Access Request, it is important to be aware that adoption agencies also have discretion to provide access to adoption records under the Adoption Agencies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989 and that this route may enable the disclosure of more information than a Subject Access Request. When you submit a Subject Access Request for information held about you in adoption records, the adoption agency should also provide you with information about making a request under the Adoption Agencies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989. The guidance below is designed to assist you in using the special system for adoption records. Guidance on making a request under the UK GDPR is available on our Accessing Records and Your Rights page.
The Department of Health has issued detailed guidance to HSC Trust adoption agencies and voluntary adoption agencies on how to deal with applications for adoption records, and the Independent Panel hopes that this guidance will ensure a uniform approach in decision-making so that people affected have full access to the records to which they are entitled by law.
Applying for Access to Adoption Records
There is no prescribed form for applications for access to adoption records under the Adoption Agencies Regulations (Northern Ireland)1989. The Independent Panel recommends that applications be made by email so that records of the application are automatically generated.
There is no fee for applications for access to adoption records.
In processing applications for adoption records, HSC Trusts and voluntary agencies are required to go through the records carefully and individually, taking account of the context and all the circumstances relating to the request. For this reason, it is very important, in making such a request, to set out the context and circumstances as fully as possible. To help you, you may consider using this checklist to write your email:
The recipient
Send the email to the relevant HSC Trust or voluntary agency using the contact details below.
The subject
The subject of your email should be ‘Request for access to adoption records under Regulation 15 of the Adoption Agencies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989’
Information about you
Set out your name and attach evidence of your identity (a copy of your driving licence / passport) and evidence of your address (a copy of a recent bank statement / utility or council tax bill / television licence). If you are an adopted person, your birth name and the names of any birth family members you know will help the decision-maker locate the right records.
The reason for application
Set out why you are applying for your adoption records, and why the records are important. This will be personal to you, but because the decision-maker is required to consider your request in the context of all the circumstances, the more information you can provide about those circumstances, the better. If you expect that the records you are requesting contain either information that you already have about other people, or information about people who are dead, you should say so, as this will be considered in making the decision about how much of the information needs to be redacted (blacked out).
How you would like your records to be provided
Set out how you would like your records to be provided. Asking for your records by email has the advantage of creating an automatic record in case you need to ask for a review.
Processing Applications for Access to Adoption Records
In deciding whether to grant access to records, the person making the decision needs to balance your right of access with the right to confidentiality of others. In coming to their decision, they consider:
- Whether the other person is alive or dead (or likely to be dead), but bearing in mind that an obligation of confidentiality may continue beyond a person’s death;
- Whether the other person consented to the disclosure of the information. The decision-maker may ask the other person for their consent to disclose their personal data to you. If you would prefer that they not do so, you can ask them not to; and
- Whether, even if the person does not consent, it is reasonable to grant access to the records.
In deciding whether it is reasonable, the following circumstances must be considered:
- The type of information that would be disclosed.
- Any duty of confidentiality that the person holding the records owes to the other person.
- Any steps the applicant has taken to obtain the other person’s consent.
- Whether the other person is capable of giving consent.
- Whether the other person has refused to give consent.
Another matter which should be considered is whether the information that would be disclosed about another person is information that you already have. If you think the records you are looking for contain information about other people that you already know, you should mention this in your letter.
It is important to make the decision-maker aware of how important the information is for you. It is a good idea to include in your request for access some information about why you are looking for the records and why they are important for you. The more important they are for you, the less likely it is that another person’s interest in non-disclosure will outweigh your interest in obtaining access.
The guidance issued by the Department of Health to HSC Trusts and voluntary adoption agencies suggests that decision-makers should engage with people who make requests for access to adoption records to ensure that they have as much information as possible on which to base their decision. Such engagement is required to be sensitive and done in a trauma-informed way. This means that you should not worry if you get requests for more information from the adoption agency concerned. This is a normal part of the process.
If there is a reason you need your request to be prioritised — for example, if you have a serious medical condition, or if you need access to services, or if you are taking legal action — you should indicate this in your letter.
Where to Send Your Application
Health and Social Care Trusts
Each HSC Trust has an adoption and fostering team made up of social workers. These teams control the release of adoption records.
Contact details for the HSC Trusts are as follows:
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust,
Fostering and Adoption Team,
Admin Building,
Forster Green Hospital,
110 Saintfield Road,
Belfast,
BT8 6GR.
Lead Social Worker: Karen Simpson.
Email: karen.simpson@belfasttrust.hscni.net
Tel: 028 95040350
Western Health and Social Care Trust
Western Health and Social Care Trust,
Fostering and Adoption Team,
Community Services Department,
Tyrone and Fermanagh Hospital,
Hospital Road,
Omagh,
BT79 0NS.
Lead Social Worker: Roisin Lynch / Anita Birney.
Email: Roisin.Lynch@westerntrust.hscni.net
Tel: 028 7131 4235
Email: Anita.Birney@westerntrust.hscni.net
Tel: 028 8283 5114
Northern Health and Social Care Trust
Northern Health and Social Care Trust Adoption Team,
Oriel House,
2-8 Castle Street,
Antrim,
BT41 4JE
Lead Social Worker: Caroline Turley
Email: Adoption.Team@northerntrust.hscni.net
Tel: 028 9442 6196
Southern Health and Social Care Trust
Southern Health and Social Care Trust Adoption and Permanence Team,
Southern HSC Trust,
John Mitchell Place,
Newry,
Co. Down,
BT34 2BU.
Lead Social Worker: Joan McGuinness
Email: joan.mcguinness@southerntrust.hscni.net
Tel: 028 3756 6125
South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust
South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust
Fostering and Adoption,
South Eastern HSC Trust,
61 Woodland Park,
Warren Children’s Centre,
Lisburn,
BT28 1LQ.
Lead Social Worker: Karen Leonard / Pamela Robinson
Email: karen.leonard@setrust.hscni.net
Email: pamela.robinson@setrust.hscni.net
Tel: 028 9127 0672
Voluntary Adoption Agencies
The voluntary adoption agencies have designated staff whose responsibility it is to consider and decide on requests for access to adoption records.
Contact details for the relevant agencies are as follows:
Family Care Adoption Services,
50 Knockbreda Road,
Belfast,
BT6 0JB
CEO: Maggie McSorley
Email: email@familycareadoption.org
Adoptions Routes,
Ground Floor,
Unit 2, 18 Heron Road,
Belfast,
BT3 9LE.
CEO: Lynda Wilson
Email: info@adoptionroutes.co.uk
Receiving Your Records
You should receive an acknowledgement of your application for adoption records within seven working days.
The Department of Health guidance indicates that HSC Trusts and agencies should respond to requests for access to adoption records within 30 working days, or 90 working days in complex cases. Experience suggests that responding to requests for adoption records is complex in most cases.
You will have the option to choose how you would like to receive the information you have requested. You should be given the option to receive:
A copy of the adoption file; or
A letter of information which includes all the information in the file which can legally be given to you; or
Both a copy of the file and a letter of information.
Some information in adoption files to which access has been granted may be redacted. Unfortunately, sometimes information is redacted which ought not to be. Although all requests for information held on adoption case records will be considered on a case-by-case basis, where an adopted adult requests access to their records the following types of records and information should, in general, not be redacted:
Names and addresses at the time of the adoption.
Information concerning the parents’ / grandparents’ names, that is: a) not on a birth certificate or in any other record other than the applicant’s file; or b) inconsistent with the adoptee’s knowledge.
Letters written by the voluntary adoption agency / HSC Trust adoption agency to the parents or grandparents, or vice versa.
Personal information relating to parents or grandparents e.g., education, domestic circumstances, activities that they were engaged in.
Information concerning time spent with a parent or carer.
All information concerning a deceased parent or grandparent.
Names and dates of birth for biological siblings.
Address and contact details of siblings.
Personal particulars relating to siblings, e.g., education, domestic circumstances, activities that they are engaged in etc.
References to siblings and the applicant in the same context e.g., John and Betty (siblings) went to camp.
Information concerning visits to the child or the child visiting the sibling.
Information concerning a deceased sibling.
Names of close relatives.
Address and contact details.
Letters written concerning the applicant.
Information relating to relatives e.g., education, domestic circumstances, activities that they are engaged in.
Names of doctors, nurses, social workers, solicitors etc.
Letters written to, or by, professionals (doctor / nurse / social worker etc.) that concern the adopted person.
Names of carers.
Address and contact details for foster carers.
What to Do if You Are Unhappy With How Your Application Has Been Dealt With
The guidance for HSC Trusts and voluntary adoption agencies issued by the Department of Health requires them to put in place review mechanisms to allow people unhappy with their decisions to have the decision on their application reviewed by an independent party.
If you are unhappy with a decision of a HSC Trust adoption agency or voluntary adoption agency in relation to your application, you should request an independent review. Your application will then be reviewed by an independent party.
If you are requesting a review, you may consider using this checklist to write your email:
The recipient
Send the email to the relevant HSC Trust or agency using the contact details below.
The subject
The subject of your email should be ‘Request for review of decision on access to adoption records under Regulation 15 of the Adoption Agencies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989’
The decision you would like reviewed
Say that you are not satisfied with the records you have been provided with and that before you take the matter any further you are giving the decision-maker the chance to review their decision. Give the date of the decision on your request for access to adoption records, any reference number on the decision, and the name of the person who made it. If possible, attach a copy of the decision to make the reviewer’s job as easy as possible.
The grounds of review
Set out why you are applying for a review. Possible grounds of review include:
Access to documents has been refused even though redaction would have been sufficient to protect the interests of other people.
Names, addresses and dates of other people have been redacted even though those people are dead / should be presumed, on the basis of the age they would be, to be dead. If this is an issue in your case, you should attach copies of the relevant birth or death certificate. You can find guidance on accessing civil registration records here.
Information you already know is blacked out.
Information that does not relate to other people at all is blacked out.
The correct balance has not been struck between the rights of other people and your right to information about yourself. Explain why the information in the records you are requesting is important to you. Because the decision-maker is required to consider your request in the context of all the circumstances, the more information you can provide about those circumstances, the better. Explain why your rights should outweigh any other interest.
Refer to Department of Health Guidance
Ask for an independent review of the decision and refer to the guidance issued by the Department of Health.
If, following such a review, you are still unhappy, you may wish to make a complaint via the relevant agency’s complaints procedure.
Details of the Health and Social Care Complaints procedure is available at How to complain or raise concerns about health services | nidirect.
You may also be able to challenge the decision in court.
Going to Court
Even after a decision of the HSC Trust or voluntary adoption agency has been reviewed, you may still feel that the law has not been properly applied and that records to which you are entitled have been wrongly withheld.
To do this, you need to apply to the High Court to challenge the decision by way of a process called judicial review.
Judicial review is the process by which a judge examines the legality of how a body arrived at its decision. The judge, who sits in the Judicial Review Court, considers whether the decision reached is undermined by some illegality, irrationality, procedural unfairness or failure to strike the right balance between your rights and the rights and interests of others.
Based on its consideration of the evidence the Judicial Review Court can order the decision or action to be set aside (quashed) and require the body to follow a lawful process to come to a decision.
Legal aid for judicial review may be available, depending on your means. You can apply for legal aid through a solicitor. If you do not have a solicitor already, the Law Society of Northern Ireland maintains a directory of solicitors from which you can choose.
Boarding Out, Fostering and Care Records Held by Health and Social Care Trusts
In Northern Ireland health services and social services are the responsibility of the Department of Health, which delivers them through a system called Health and Social Care. Health and Social Care is organised across six Trusts, five of which have responsibility for service delivery in particular regions across Northern Ireland, and one of which, the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Trust, operates an ambulance service.
Among the functions of the five regional HSC Trusts are adoption and foster care. There is a regional fostering and adoption service in Belfast, and local adoption and fostering teams in each of the five Trusts. This map shows the areas covered by each Trust.
The adoption and fostering teams, while responsible for current fostering placements, also hold records for past individual care placements, including boarding out, in Northern Ireland that took place within their areas of responsibility.
Applications for records relating to boarding out, fostering and care placements usually contain personal data of the people to whom they relate. You will be able to access such records containing your personal data by making a Subject Access Request under the UK GDPR. Guidance on how to make subject access requests is available on our Accessing Records and Your Rights page.
Where to Send Your Application
Health and Social Care Trusts
Each HSC Trust has an adoption and fostering team made up of social workers. These teams control the release of boarding our, fostering and care records.
Contact details for the HSC Trusts are as follows:
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust,
Fostering and Adoption Team,
Admin Building,
Forster Green Hospital,
110 Saintfield Road,
Belfast,
BT8 6GR.
Lead Social Worker: Karen Simpson.
Email: karen.simpson@belfasttrust.hscni.net
Tel: 028 95040350
Western Health and Social Care Trust
Western Health and Social Care Trust,
Fostering and Adoption Team,
Community Services Department,
Tyrone and Fermanagh Hospital,
Hospital Road,
Omagh,
BT79 0NS.
Lead Social Worker: Roisin Lynch / Anita Birney.
Email: Roisin.Lynch@westerntrust.hscni.net
Tel: 028 7131 4235
Email: Anita.Birney@westerntrust.hscni.net
Tel: 028 8283 5114
Northern Health and Social Care Trust
Northern Health and Social Care Trust,
Adoption Team,
Oriel House,
2-8 Castle Street,
Antrim,
BT41 4JE
Lead Social Worker: Caroline Turley
Email: Adoption.Team@northerntrust.hscni.net
Tel: 028 9442 6196
Southern Health and Social Care Trust
Southern Health and Social Care Trust
Fostering and Adoption Team,
John Mitchell Place,
Newry,
Co. Down,
BT34 2BU.
Lead Social Worker: Joan McGuinness
Email: joan.mcguinness@southerntrust.hscni.net
Tel: 028 3756 6125
South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust
South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust,
Fostering and Adoption Team,
South Eastern HSC Trust,
61 Woodland Park,
Warren Children’s Centre,
Lisburn,
BT28 1LQ.
Lead Social Worker: Karen Leonard / Pamela Robinson
Email: karen.leonard@setrust.hscni.net
Email: pamela.robinson@setrust.hscni.net
Tel: 028 9127 0672