Help and Support for UK parents

Help and Support for UK parents

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Hear from YAA Administrator, Olivia who has put together this blog to highlight the support available for adopters, parents and their children, and how to access it.   Financial help if you have children in the UK Child Tax Credit is a benefit that helps with the...
Managing our first Christmas as an adoptive family

Managing our first Christmas as an adoptive family

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Hi I’m Skye and I wanted to share how we managed the first Christmas with our two adopted children.  Christmas is already a busy, exhausting, and emotional day but this intensifies massively when it’s your first as a new family.    We were so excited for our...
Adopting a child from overseas

Adopting a child from overseas

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What is Inter Country Adoption?  Yorkshire Adoption Agency are one of a few agencies in the UK that offer Inter Country Adoption (ICA) services which is the adoption of children internationally.  We have a dedicated Advanced Practitioner for ICA, Harriet who focuses...
Sleep and bedtime health for children and young people

Sleep and bedtime health for children and young people

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Sleep and bedtime health for children and young people As the nights are drawing in and our clocks change for the winter months, YAA Social Worker, Maisie wanted to share some useful training she took with The Sleep Charity about the importance of sleep and bedtime....
Healthy packed lunch ideas – without breaking the bank

Healthy packed lunch ideas – without breaking the bank

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Back to School 2024 – Packed lunches Back to school can mean many things to many people and in our house it signals the beginning of another year of packed lunches. Packed lunches can be essential for some children and families but as we are all beginning to...