What we do
atSTAKE works to protect and expand access to specialist therapeutic support for adopted and kinship children, young people and adults.
Our activities include:
Engaging with the adoption, kinship, children’s social care, therapeutic and voluntary sectors
Challenging government and statutory services where policy decisions risk harm to children and families
Lobbying ministers, MPs and decision-makers
Providing a platform for parents, carers, adoptees, special guardians and kinship families to be heard
Gathering lived experience and data through surveys, testimony and family evidence
Producing briefings, reports, statements and campaign resources
Supporting families to write to MPs and respond to consultations
Working with journalists and media producers to raise public awareness
Organising public campaigning, including protest where needed
What we are fighting for
Adopted and kinship children, young adults and adults deserve timely, specialist therapeutic help at the right level and at the right time.
We are fighting for a future in which adopted and kinship children have reliable access to specialist therapeutic support when they need it.
That means support that is:
Nationally consistent
Ring-fenced
Properly funded
Clinically and developmentally appropriate
Accessible before crisis
Informed by lived experience
Supported by a broad and serious evidence base
Available into adolescence and adulthood whenever need arises
The name atSTAKE reflects the seriousness of this moment.
Specialist therapy is atSTAKE.
Children’s safety is atSTAKE.
Family stability is atSTAKE.
The future of adoption and kinship support is atSTAKE.
Our childrens’ futures are atSTAKE.
