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
• Individual social work support to adoptive families through a keyworker.
• Assessments for financial support
  

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,