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Apply for a Domestic Tracing Service If you are actively seeking to locate and make contact with a birth relative, a tracing service is available to you.  The tracing service can assist with sharing information while supporting a level of contact (if any) …

Make a Freedom of Information Request The Freedom of Information Act gives you the right to access certain records held by the Adoption Authority. It came into effect in 1998 and applies to the Authority from 2008 onwards.  What can I ask for? You can ask …

Make a Data Subject Access Request The Adoption Authority of Ireland (AAI) is an autonomous statutory body with a mandate to regulate adoption and safekeep adoption and historic care arrangement records in Ireland. In carrying out its statutory functions …

Make a Birth Information Request If you: are an adopted person; were fostered (sometimes called boarded-out or nursed-out); are a person who, as a child, was resident in a County Home; are a person who, as a child, was resident in Mother and Baby Home; …

Access to Records The Adoption Authority is the keeper of over 110,000 files created by itself, its predecessor bodies, associated adoption agencies and County Homes.  These records form a unique collection documenting the experiences of adopted people …

Step-Parent Adoption Stepfamily in the context of adoption generally refers to families formed when the birth mother or father of a child marries or co-habits with a man or woman who is not the birth father or birth mother of that child, and the child is …

Birth Father Register If you are aware that the mother of your child intends to place the child for adoption without letting you know or against your wishes, or you are concerned that this might happen, you can notify the Authority that you wish to be …

Long-term Foster Care to Adoption Long-term foster care to adoption occurs where a child has been placed with a person or couple in a foster care situation because the birth mother or birth parents are unsure of what decision they wish to make about …

Domestic Infant Adoption Domestic infant adoption is the process whereby a child is placed with an alternative set of parents or parent. All legal rights, responsibilities and duties are transferred to the new parent(s) and the birth parents relinquish …

Extended Family or Relative Adoption Extended family or relative adoption specifically refers to: A member of the child’s extended family who, alone or together with a spouse/partner, wants to adopt the child The child is living with the prospective …

Longterm foster care to adoption Long Term Foster Care to Adoption  - This type of adoption occurs where a child has been placed with a person or couple initially in a foster care situation because the birth mother/parents are unsure of what decision they …

Accreditation In the context of adoption, accreditation means the formal evaluation by the Adoption Authority of Ireland of certain bodies or people, specifically bodies or people who are involved in making arrangements for the adoption of a child or the …