Welcome to TACT

The Adolescent Children's Trust is a registered charity that provides child-centred services to Local Authorities throughout the UK.

Our aim is to help children of all ages and all ethnic groups, to grow and mature as unique and confident individuals through the continued creative development of appropriate child-centred services.

At its heart, TACT has a dedicated team of well-trained, experienced staff and foster carers. They are able to provide appropriate family placements for all age groups and time-scales.

On this site you will find information about the services we provide, the training and support our carers receive, as well as how we are able to achieve high standards in the field of child-care provision.

Press Releases

TACT: 2013 Virgin London Marathon

Join TACT at one of the greatest sporting events on the planet and help give a child in care a future to smile about.

TACT: Climb Kilimanjaro 2013

Following the tremendous response we received for our 2012 Mount Kilimanjaro climb we have decided to set up another trip to take on the world's tallest freedstanding mountain in 2013.

TACT: Local authority adoption services: avoiding the last chance saloon

Yesterday’s announcement about further measures to tackle delay in the adoption system are the most far-reaching this Government has yet produced as part of its agenda of reforming the adoption system. TACT acknowledges that the numbers of children waiting to be able to move in with a new adoptive family justifies a comprehensive review of the adoption system. Continue reading...

TACT: Report on care and crime shows how children in care are being let down

A report by the Inspectorate of Probation, which says children in care who have been in trouble with the law are being failed by youth offending teams, makes for worrying reading. Charity TACTCare comments here.

TACT: Labour conference fringe event - children in care and their forgotten human rights

Come along to our fringe event at the Labour Party Conference. This is being held jointly with The Who Cares? Trust and the topic for discussion is the human rights of children in care.

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