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Private adoption agency or your local authority?

The agent who is responsible for your adoption is either your local authority or an independent approved adoption agency. They are required by law, to provide an inter-country adoption service to their residents, who wish to adopt overseas.

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If you live in London in  Croydon, Greenwich, Kingston-upon-Thames, Lambeth, Merton, Newham, Richmond, Southwark, Surrey,  Wandsworth or Westminster then your Adoption Agency will be Inter-Country Adoption Centre.

If you live in North London and are in Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington or are Jewish then your adoption agency will be Norwood.

If you live in Bath & North East Somerset, Bedfordshire, Bracknell, Brighton & Hove, Bristol, Bournemouth, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, East Sussex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Luton, Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire, Peterborough, Plymouth, Poole, Reading, Slough, South Gloucestershire, Somerset, Suffolk, Torbay, Waltham Forest (London), West Berkshire, West Sussex, Wiltshire, Winsor and Maidenhead and Wokingham then your Adoption Support Provider is PACT

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