Adoption Services
'Make their future part of yours'
Adoption is one of the most challenging as well as the most
rewarding ways of making a difference to a child’s life. We know
that caring for children is a tremendously important task and we
aim to guide you through the journey you will take if you decide
you want to adopt a child.
Adoption is a lifelong commitment providing a loving, permanent
family for a child or children who cannot return to their birth
family. When you adopt you take on all the legal rights and
responsibilities for your child.
'What kinds of children are waiting to be
adopted?'
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Learn more about the steps to
Adoption
Steps to Adoption
Adoption Information Evenings
Get more information on Adoption through email
cs-adoption&fostering@worcestershire.gov.uk
Get more information on Adoption over the
phone
Freephone enquiry line: 0800 633 5442
A free phone call service for information and advice on
adoption
Frequently Asked Questions
Forms
Documents:
Interactive Maps
- Adoption UK
Adoption UK is a
national charity run by and for adopters, providing self-help
information, advice, support and training on all aspects of
adoption and adoptive parenting
- British Association for Adoption and
Fostering
The Homepage for a British charity that supports
children who are adopted or fostered
- Children's Legal
Centre
Provide free independent legal advice to children, parents and
carers
- Family Rights Group (FRG)
Provides advice to parents and family members whose children are
involved with or require social care services
- Department of Health
The Homepage
of an organisation that resolves issues to do with health
- The Grandparents'
Association
Supports grandparents who are caring for their grandchildren
on a full-time basis and those who have lost or are losing contact
with them
- Grandparents Plus
Champions the role of grandparents and the wider family in
children's lives, especially when they take on the caring
role
- Ofsted
The Homepage of a
charity who want to safeguard all children
- Family Lives
The Homepage of
a website that helps parents deal with family lives
- Somebody Else's
Child
The Homepage full of information on
privately fostering children
- The Fostering Network
The
Homepage of the UK's leading charity for foster care
- Voice
Advocacy organisation for
children living away from home or in need
- Young Minds
An
organisation that works to improve the emotional wellbeing and
mental health of children and young people and empowering their
parents and carers
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This page was last reviewed 24 April 2013 at 16:03.
The page is next due for review 21 October 2014.