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If your child is going to be adopted, Barnardo's Connecting Adoptive Families Independent Service (CAFIS) can provide you with confidential support.
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If you want to contact a relative who was adopted, or if you were adopted and want to contact your birth relatives, CAFIS can help.
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If you'd like access to your records or want to contact your birth family, CAFIS can help.
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CAFIS offer a contact service to help birth relatives and adoptive parents keep in touch in a confidential way.
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When you turn 18, you will be able to access your adoption records and can make more decisions about the contact you have with your birth family.