We provide high quality permanent family placements for our children in care. We recruit and support local adopters, and provide adoption support services to adoptive children and families, birth families and other related people. The team recruit, prepare, assess, train and support prospective adoptive parents and adopters. Prospective adopters are considered by our Adoption and Permanence Panel following assessment. Once approved we support them to become a family.

The team also provide counselling for adopted adults, including support in accessing birth records, locally or through other adoption agencies. This service is available to all adopted adults living in Bath and North East Somerset as well as any person placed for adoption by this authority.

If you are interested in adopting a child from another country and live in the Bath & North East Somerset area you should contact Parents and Children Together (PACT) on 0800 731 1845 or visit their website: www.pactcharity.org/

For further information on adoption please click on the links below or contact us on (01225) 394949, email fpt_duty@bathnes.gov.uk or write to us at P. O. Box 3343, Bath, BA1 2ZH.

Other pages in this section:

• Adoption: your questions answered
  
  
• Adoption: some more questions answered 
  
  
• What About The Children? 
  
  
• Adoption Preparation And Assessment: What To Expect (1)  
  
  
• Adoption Preparation And Assessment: What To Expect  (2)
  
  
• What Are We Looking For In An Adoption Assessment? (1)
  
  
• What Are We Looking For In An Adoption Assessment?  (2)
  
  
• Support for Adoptive Families
  
  
• Support for Birth Families
  
  
• Support for Adopted Adults
  
  
• Support for Children and Young People
  
  
• Adoption Support Information Sheets