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Adoption Advice Service
See Barnardos
Adoption Board – An Bord Uchtála
4th Floor Shelbourne House, Shelbourne Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
Tel: (01) 230 9300 Fax: (01) 667 1438
Web: www.adoptionboard.ie
State agency whose primary function is to make or refuse adoption orders.
Also responsible for dealing with tracing enquiries from adoptees or birth
parents, for making declarations of eligibility and suitability to adopt abroad,
for providing information to those wishing to adopt abroad, and for making
entries in the Register of Foreign Adoptions for adoptions effected outside
the State.
Adoptive Parents Association of Ireland
Roundwood, Bray, Co. Wicklow
Tel: (0404) 45 184 Fax: (0404) 45 700 Email: apai@eircom.net
Provides assistance and support to adoptive parents and their families, birth
parents, fostered people and people raised in institutions. Contributes to
research and development of services in all aspects of adoption, and liaises
with other adoption groups. Provides search and reunion assistance.
Adult Educational Guidance Initiative
National Centre for Guidance in Education, First Floor,
42–43 Prussia Street, Dublin 7
Tel: (01) 869 0715 Fax: (01) 882 3817
Email: info@ncge.ie Web: www.ncge.ie
Provides a quality adult educational guidance service to participants in
vocational training opportunities schemes (VTOS), literacy and other adult
and community education programmes nationwide. Offers information,
advice and guidance on a one-to-one and group basis to help people make
the best possible choices for learning. There are 38 guidance projects around
the country. Funded by the Department of Education and Science.
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