PACT (Parents and Children Together)

Who we are

Parents And Children Together - PACT - has been building and strengthening families since 1911.

PACT helps hundreds of families every year through outstanding adoption and award-winning therapeutic support and inspirational community projects across London and the south of England.

PACT is one of the UK’s leading independent adoption agencies, placing children with secure and loving families and supporting them with specialist therapeutic support. Our award-winning FACTS service includes counselling, Theraplay, creative art therapy and life story work which help children to overcome difficulties in childhood, adolescence and early adulthood which have resulted from early trauma and neglect.

PACT also runs community projects supporting vulnerable children and adults facing a range of issues including domestic abuse, homelessness and debt.

"It has been great working for an organisation where adoption is the focus in all we do and knowing that we can offer our families the most comprehensive and worthwhile support. As a staff member PACT is also innovative and allows for lots of different opportunities for its staff and I have had the chance to work in many different roles. "

Mandy, Adoption Team Manager

Our culture and values

Our vision is to deliver high quality services to build and strengthen an increasing number of children and families. This vision shapes everything that we do, and is reflected in our hallmarks of quality, expertise and innovation. 

We have achieved leadership in the voluntary adoption sector, both in quality, endorsed by an outstanding Ofsted judgement, and also quantity, by growing the number of adoptive families and loving homes for children. 

We apply the same vision to shape, and grow, our communities projects providing quality services and successful outcomes for women and children in need of support. 

We know that our reputation is only as good as our workforce, and place great emphasis on training and developing our staff, including introducing a coaching culture. This ensures that quality is maintained through our investment in the continuing professional development of our employees in all areas of the organisation. The role of volunteers is also highly important and significant in the support and delivery of our services. 

Our goal is to ensure that we can continue to deliver additional and improved services in the future, and therefore we continue to ensure a sound financial platform, to achieve this. 

We know that our evolving vision has guided us well over the years and will do so for the future so that we can continue to build and strengthen the families we work with. 

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

As a voluntary adoption agency and a charity supporting vulnerable women, children and families, Parents And Children Together – PACT – strives to uphold anti-racist values.

PACT has a long and successful history of finding families for children from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds and is fully committed to anti-discriminatory practice. However, the Black Lives Matter movement has caused us to pause and reflect and challenge ourselves to do more; to listen, learn and take action, acknowledging our individual and collective responsibility to tackle racism and discrimination wherever we find it.