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Adoption

Adopt in Telford through our regional adoption agency - Together4Children

We are a proud member of Together4Children, the regional adoption agency for Telford & Wrekin Council in partnership with Shropshire Council, Staffordshire County Council and Stoke-on-Trent City Council.

The partnership is a new way of delivering our adoption services across the region.

Working together means, we can offer greater choice and a better support service for both our children and adopters. The four authorities will share information about all of their children and the prospective parents available, but each council will retain responsibility for children from its area.

As the regional permanency partnership, Together4Children will work across the four local authorities to deliver a range of adoption services, including:

  • recruiting and assessing adoptive families;
  • finding families for the children from our region who need adoptive families;
  • providing adoption support services to adopted children, their families, birth families and adopted adults.

You can find out more by visiting the together4children website.

You can also follow Together4Children on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to keep up to date with our latest news.

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I want to adopt

Adoption is a legal process that permanently joins a child to their adoptive parent(s) – who then take on the responsibility of bringing them up.

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I'm adopted

There are a whole number of reasons why an authority would feel that it is in the child’s best interest to be adopted.

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I’m an adoptive parent

All adopted children are entitled to a range of social services and other support based on their needs.

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I’m a birth relative

We appreciate that this can be a difficult and stressful time, and we can provide you with the support you may need.

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Finding your birth family

Adoption contact registers provide a way for adopted people and birth relatives to register their interest in making contact with one another.

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Access to records

Find out how to access your birth name.

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Letterbox contact

The Letterbox is a system that enables birth relatives and adoptive parents to stay in contact by exchanging written information.