Brighton and Hove City Council acknowledges that adoption is a lifelong process and as such requires long term support for all involved. We offer the following services:

• A dedicated "Adoption Support" Services Advisor, whose role is key in enabling and co-ordinating the provision of services, working alongside other statutory and voluntary agencies.
• A letterbox service, for the exchange of information between adopted children and birth family members.
• Facilitating and supervising direct contact arrangements.
• A range of adoption support groups
• Training workshops
• Social events
• Newsletter
• Payment of first year's membership of Adoption UK
• Individual social work support to adoptive families through a keyworker.
• Access to independent services including advice and counselling through the Post Adoption Centre.
• Assessments for financial support
  

Our contract with the Post Adoption Centre

The contract allows Brighton and Hove residents affected by adoption (adoptive families, birth families and adoptees) to access the following services:

• 5 days a week telephone advice: 020 7284 5879 (Mon - Fri 10am-1pm, plus Thurs. 5.30-7-30pm)
• Up to 4 sessions of counselling at the Post Adoption Centre’s offices.
• A contact and mediation service for limited consultation or counselling.
• Locally based monthly ‘surgery’ with 2 counsellors based at the Brighthelm Centre offering a maximum of 8 appointments per day.
• Occasional local training or workshops.

Please contact Gillian Luckock if you want to know more.

For our Guide to Services in Brighton & Hove for adoptive parents and their children please click here

www.newfamilysocial.co.uk : New Family Social is a UK-wide organisation run by, and for lesbian and gay adopters and prospective adopters.

www.baaf.org.uk : British Assocation of fostering and Adoption,

www.adoptionuk.org.uk : National self-help charity run by, and for, adoptive parents and foster carers, offering support befiore, during and after adoption,

www.afteradoption.org.uk : National voluntary organisation that has a helpline for young people and others affected by adoption,

www.amazebrighton.org.uk : information and advice to parents and carers of children wiuth special needs and disabled children in Brighton & Hove,