Understand your rights, records and legal position.
A growing resource for adoptees, beginning with practical information about adoption law and records in England and Wales.
These are the first resources available.
Rights
What adoption changes in law, what rights adoptees have now, and where the limits are.
Records
Birth records, adoption files, court records, redactions, tracing and finding record holders.
Legal Cases
Important judgments and legal developments explained in plain language.
Intercountry Adoption
Country, date, recognition, records and the separate questions of immigration and citizenship.
Legislation
A timeline of the Acts, committees, regulations and standards that changed adoption — and what each stage meant for adoptees.
About
Why this project exists, how the research is controlled, and what the service does and does not do.
Research-backed, but not frozen in time.
The site is being designed so that new legal research, country modules, documents, case summaries and user-tested guidance can be added without rebuilding the platform.
Current knowledge baseline: v78 · beta