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Adoption

...Taking care to make a difference...

Telephone - 01545 574 000
Minicom - 01545 574001
Fax No - 01545 574002
Email - contact-socservs@ceredigion.gov.uk


Adoption Service

Service provided

The Adoption Service is provided in partnership with Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire as part of the West Wales Adoption Service.   
The West Wales Adoption Service seeks to provide a comprehensive adoption service, which will deliver services of the highest possible quality to all parties involved in the adoption process.

  • To identify children whose best needs would be met by being placed with adoptive families.
  • To support and prepare children through the process of adoption.
  • To identify and recruit appropriate people to act as adoptive parents.
  • To assess and prepare people and approve them as adoptive parents.
  • To match children with carers based on a clearly identified plan of need.
  • To support the lifelong needs of families brought together by adoption.

To offer lifelong support to families brought together by adoption - including siblings, grandparents and significant others.

Referral (How to contact us for a Service)

All enquiries should be made in the first instance to the Contact Centre - Telephone 01545 574000
Minicom - 01545 574001
Fax - 01545 574002
e-mail - contact-socservs@ceredigion.gov.uk
             cyswllt-socservs@ceredigion.gov.uk
Office Hours: Monday - Thursday 8.45 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.
Friday 8.45 a.m. - 4.30 p.m.
Emergency enquiries outside these times are dealt with by an Emergency Duty Team.

Age Range

Children  0 - 18  Adults    18+

Charges

No

Area

Ceredigion