Annual Adoption Lecture 2024

Following the hugely successful adoption conference in 2023, ExChange is launching their Annual Adoption Lecture 2024. The guest speaker is Professor Laura Machin from Lancaster University, who will present their work on the Adopters Advocacy Project. 

Professor Machin – herself both an adopted child and an adoptive parent – sits on the All Party Parliamentary Group on Adoption and Permanence. She launched the Adopters Advocacy project to highlight the voices and needs of prospective adopters and adopters during the adoption process and after a child has been placed, without diminishing the needs of adoptees and their birth families. Her current project focuses on the mental health and support needs of adopters, based on a series of focus groups with adopters.

This lecture is being run by ExChange if you have any questions, please contact the event team.