Adoption
About this service
Wiltshire Council is approved as an adoption agency by the Department
for Education and Skills to arrange adoptions for children and for the approval of people as adoptive
parents. For more information about the adoption service in Wiltshire, please see 
Adoption Statement of Purpose 171kb.
We provide a range of adoption services:
- Services for children who need adoption
- Becoming an adoptive parent
- Adoption support service
- Accessing your adoption records (adopted adults)
- Tracing an adopted person (intemediary services for birth relatives)
- Tracing your birth relatives (intermediary services for adopted adults)
- Special guardianship
- Intercountry adoption
- Step-parent adoption
If you want to know more about why children need adoption please view Children who need adoption.
If you have any complaints about the adoption service you have received, you are entitled to make a complaint. Please see our Complaints Procedure.
Contact Details
Postal Address: Chippenham
Family Placement Team Salisbury Family Placement Team Trowbridge Family Placement Team Telephone: Recruitment
Hotline: 0800 1696321 or Email: adoption@wiltshire.gov.uk Fax: 01249
445959 (Chippenham)
357 Hungerdown Lane
Chippenham
Wiltshire
SN14
0UX
Riverside
Centre
Churchfields Road
Salisbury
Wiltshire
SP2
7NH
Trowbridge
Resource Centre
Rutland Crescent
Trowbridge
Wiltshire
BA14
0NY
01249 444321 (Chippenham)
01722 333552(Salisbury)
01225
752198 (Trowbridge)
01722 422052 (Salisbury)
01225 775334 (Trowbridge)