West Sussex County Council: Adoption

As a local authority, the county council is a registered adoption agency, providing a range of adoption services.

It is the duty of the local authority to seek an appropriate adoptive home for the child. ‘Adoption’ is then the legal process by which a court permanently transfers parental responsibility from a child’s birth parents to adoptive parents, by means of an adoption order.

• Adoption Support Service
• Becoming an Adopter