Adoption

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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 85kb

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.

Related documents

• Adoption Statement of Purpose 85kb

Related links

• Everything you need to know about Adoption
• Adoption Online Application Form
• BAAF Adoption and Fostering
• Barnardos
• DCSF - Adoption
• Every Child Matters
• National Children's Homes

Last updated: 16 November 2010