Scottish Adult Adoptee Movement - SAAM 

The Scottish Adult Adoptee Movement understand that adoption has significant, often unrecognised, impacts on people throughout their  lives. We engage in creating problem solving potentials by holding awareness raising and educational activities, and by collaborating in local grassroots and national government arenas.

We do this work because it has come to our attention that we are living in the Scottish and UK Governments’ areas of omission, exclusion and negation,  eg. The Scottish Child Abuse Enquiry, the Scottish Care Review, the Promise Scotland, the Scottish Historical Forced Adoption Review and Apology, The Scottish Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy, and the UK Joint Committee on Human Rights Report on the Violation of Family Life. 

In 2023 we produced Our Recommendations and held a 3 day conference which launched the Three Key Asks fundamental to an Adoptee Bill of Rights: the Right to Know, the Right to Autonomy and the Right to be Known


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