Adoption
Pay and leave, adopting through your council, inter-agency fees, placement, inspection forms.
Services
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Child adoption
The adoption process - eligibility, assessment, adoption agencies, overseas adoptions and the rights of birth parents.
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Adoption pay and leave
Your Statutory Adoption Pay and Leave - what you get, how to claim and eligibility
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Apply to adopt a child through your council
Apply to adopt a child through your local council if you are 21 or over and can offer a stable home to a child
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Surrogacy: legal rights of parents and surrogates
Legal rights for intended parents and surrogates; how legal parenthood is transferred; children born outside the UK; pay and leave rights
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Plan your adoption leave
Work out your Statutory Adoption Leave dates - Ordinary and Additional Adoption Leave period, notice period and earliest start date
Guidance and regulation
- Adoption support fund (ASF)
- Young person’s guide to the Children and Families Act 2014
- Adoption: statutory guidance
- Adoption: national minimum standards
- Apply for a review panel: adopters and foster carers
News and communications
- Services for vulnerable children in the Northeast rated Outstanding
- Families across England to receive better support to adopt
- New adoption and special guardianship leader appointed
- Education Secretary urges overhaul of adoption system
- Multi-million fund reaches record number of adoptive families
Research and statistics
- Applying behavioural insights to fostering and adoption in England
- Adoption support fund: local authority, regional adoption agencies and provider experiences
- Adoption support fund: study of family experiences
- Adoption support fund: second follow up survey of parents and carers
- Evaluation of the adoption support fund 2018 to 2022
Policy papers and consultations
- Adoption support agencies: proposed regulation changes
- Changes to the Adoption and Children (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2020
- Children and Families Act 2014: government response to the Lords Select Committee report
- Adoption strategy: achieving excellence everywhere