Adoption

Category Items

• Adoption Information Meetings

  We regularly hold Adoption Information Meetings throughout the year.

• Adoption - general details

  Find out about adopting a child or young person living in Croydon.

• Post-adoption support

  Support services for adoptive parents.

• Letterbox Service

  Birth families and adoptive families can have an exchange of information via Croydon's Letterbox Service.

• Birth families

  Support for birth families enquiring about relatives placed for adoption.

• Birth history

  Support for adopted adults seeking to trace their birth family history.

• Adoption support organisations

  Help, advice and information for adoptive (including inter-country) parents; adopted children, young people and adults; and birth families.

• Inter-country adoption

  Frequently asked questions regarding adopting a child from another country.

• Fostering information meetings
• Fostering
• Adoption
• Becoming a short breaks carer of children with disabilities
• Children and young people - residential care
• Looked after children's reviews
• Looked after children's education (LACE)
• Leaving care and independence service
• NCH Rightfully Yours