Adoption in Suffolk

Welcome to the Suffolk Adoption Agency.

Our mission: securing families for Suffolk children

We will try to provide a comprehensive and high quality service to meet the lifelong needs of all those individuals whose lives are affected by adoption. We give particular emphasis to finding and maintaining safe and secure families for children and young people needing adoption enabling them to achieve the best possible outcomes for life.

Could you adopt a child?

Find out more about the process, see children's profiles and apply online.

This adoption practice site tells you how we carry out our mission and is full of working tools for making and supporting adoptive families.

It contains:

	A to Z		Guidance for Social Workers-children
	Inter Agency Placement		Information about Permanence Panels
	Information Leaflets about Adoption		Policies and Procedures
	Suffolk Adoption Guide 2007		Resources for practice
	Guidance for social workers-matching		Guidance for social workers-reviews

Who is it for?

Children's social workers
Adoption and Fostering social workers
Managers
Permanence Panel members
Councillors
Consortium partners
Other Adoption Agencies
Any others interested in adoption practice.

Visitors from outside Suffolk - Welcome!

We want to encourage the exchange of best practice. We would like to hear your good ideas! If you want to use or adapt any of Suffolk’s written material on adoption you may do so freely on the conditions that you include a credit on your document to Suffolk Adoption Agency and that you advise us that you are doing so.