PACT is one of the UK’s leading independent adoption charities, placing children with secure, loving families, providing specialist therapeutic support.

Our Adoption Panel Members consider applications from those wishing to become adoptive parents. We are seeking Panel Members with an understanding of the adoption process from professional/personal experience to ensure our panel makes fair, informed recommendation outcomes to a high standard.

Time commitment-approximately 4-6 days/year to attend panel, payment rate of £200 per panel, plus reasonable travel/other expenses.

Attending 2 training sessions/year is required, travel expenses covered.

You’ll have excellent interpersonal skills, efficiency in time management, understanding/commitment to confidentiality, willingness to increase knowledge/understanding of adoption.

We’re actively working to ensure that equality/inclusion is embedded in everything we do. It’s central to our work with vulnerable children, families, and championed by our community. We want to do our best for our service users, and for everyone at PACT to feel a sense of belonging. To support this aim, we’re working to develop a panel member group representative of our diverse service users, volunteers and wider eco-system. We value having panel members who champion inclusive values, bringing a wide variety of perspectives. We encourage applications from all ages, backgrounds, cultures and experience.